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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:57:06 -0700 Vadim Antonov <[email protected]> alleged: > When i was at Sprint it was customary to ask customers to > provide some assurance that routing information Sprint takes > from them is going to stay sane. That was usually achieved > by asking customers to send in their border configurations for > review by SL engineering, and some formal criteria (like "no > unfiltered IGP to BGP redistribution") was applied and said > configuration had problems worked out before the actual peering > was enabled. > > Anyway, that automatically made every customer with BGP to go > down SCA (Special Customer Arrangement) route. I think sales > didn't like that, for whatever reason, and i saw several attempts > to make BGP peering a regular sale during my tenure there. > I guess they succeded after coming with some "guidelines", but > without any understanding of the issues involved. > > Somehow i became a big fan of Dilbert back then. > Vadim, When you were at Sprint, I was at Demon and we BGP peered with Sprint first using NetBSD/sparc IPX's with Morningstar PPP then using BSD/OS and RISCOM N2 cards. One thing that I remember is that your routers went insane _far_ more often that ours did. INSC were never much use and the only way we got things done was to cc: you and Sean in any reporting of faults. Nevertheless, both you and Sean where always very helpful. Cheers, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. E A S Y N E T G R O U P P L C [email protected] NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/";>computer!</A> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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