I spoke to a sprint salesperson about 2 weeks ago and was told that I
could not get any kind of BGP4 peering with Sprint unless I had a
Cisco 7000 series router.
I spoke to a sprint salesperson about 2 weeks ago and was told that I
could not get any kind of BGP4 peering with Sprint unless I had a
Cisco 7000 series router.
I suspect two problems.
Some [potential] cvustomers are not hearing clearly, or Sprint has some
internal communication problem that is leaking out to customers. Probably
more of the latter then the former, but likely a bit of both.
But the tough question is what to do when a customer wants to attach
something 'strange'. We're a few decades past the Carterphone decision, so
we probably should let the customer do it. But how much are we obliged to
debug it for them? And how are we compensated for our efforts beyond those
to which we are used?
randy
I had a sprint T1 a long time ago and we just had a P133 with Emerging
Tech T1 cards. We were doing BGP4 with them and MCI and had to go with the
P133 PC router because we ran out of RAM on the 4500s and did not have the
cash then for a 7000. We did have that same problem, sprint said that if
we changed to a PC router they would terminate our connection. So I had to
setup peering on the cisco then at night swap in my PC. It was able to do
cisco HDLC so it worked out and I setup the router so that when you
telneted to it it looked like a cisco.
I think that most of this is a sales person problem, because not many tech
people cared if I was using a cisco or a toaster, as long as I managed it.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!