|
North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:45:38 -0500 [email protected] (Craig A. Haney) alleged: > that was me Neil. what a hack, but the business side of the issue is that > the service was up. Indeed, and it worked _well_. nether.demon.co.uk was a SPARC IPX with 32M of ram running NetBSD 1.0 driving a 256K line with full routes into Chicago and I remember the machine had an uptime of over 200 days, which was lost when Demon had a powercut at Finchley. BUT its a little alarming to see Sprint saying you can only use CISCO routers, when infact other routers work equally well, if not better. I just wanted to note that other routers can do the job. I hope this idea doesn't spread to any other backbone providers. > >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. > > aren't a high percentage of NOC's manage trouble tickets vs actually the > responsible group for fixing? > True, but when you have a lot of customers, and your transit provider is down, you want to get things fixed fast. As I said both Vadim and Sean always sorted any problems out. There was only one time when I felt we were let down by Sprint and that was the PTAT cable break a year and a half ago. I liked working with Sprint, they may have had their problems but I think they supplied Demon with as good a service as any other transit providers would. Its certainly better than some UK backbone providers [Hello BTnet!] and as long as Sprint let me use what router I liked, I'd certainly deal with them again. I think I learned all I know about routeing and BGP4 because of problems that we had with Sprint, so in some strange way its Sprints fault that I'm interested in all of this :-) 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> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|