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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
Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >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. Take a look someday in the BSD/OS sources to find out who wrote RISCOM and ethernet drivers and PPP stack for it :) Unfortunately you're comparing apples and elephants. ICM routers were (and still are) the most convolutedly configured and most overtaxed routers in the universe. Running a week-old revision of cisco code, at that, because previous releases had bugs which made it even less useful. >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. INSC had a big staffing problem -- as soon as a new person learned stuff he's leaving for a salary two times higher, and for a much less stressful environment. Sprint management was never able to recognize the fact that Internet backbone skills is a seller's market. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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