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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 Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:55:17 -0700 Vadim Antonov <[email protected]> alleged: > Take a look someday in the BSD/OS sources to find out who wrote > RISCOM and ethernet drivers and PPP stack for it :) Yeah I know :-) Although I know that from history and not the current 2.1 sources. You don't fancy doing a NetBSD driver ? ;-) > > 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. > Well we were plugged into SL-DC-2 then SL-DC-14, not sure about the latter, but yeah I remember the situation at the time. It was fun! :-) > 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. > Yah, I wish someone would point that out to ISP's in the UK ;-) 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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