Yes, I'm extremely suprised that this is their stance. I'm pressed to find a technical reason behind such a requirement. The 7000 is a Motorola 68XXX based system, and the 4500/4700 is a risc based system. There have been performance tests that have shown that the 45/47 boxes out perform the 7000 boxes. I'd be very interested in hearing Sprints' reasoning on this. Chris ---------- From: Neil J. McRae[SMTP:neil@EASYNET.NET] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 1996 11:11 AM To: Deepak Jain Cc: Steve Mansfield; Rob Liebschutz; hank@rem.com; jon@worf.netins.net; nanog@merit.edu; neil@EASYNET.NET Subject: Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com> alleged:
Steve -
I think he means Sprint told him they would not BGP4 peer with him if he didn't have a Cisco 7000 series router. Not that it wasn't possible. :)
You have to vote with your feet on this and take your money elsewhere. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. E A S Y N E T G R O U P P L C neil@EASYNET.NET NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A> BTnet support reply regarding 45 minutes of no service: "BGP FNF, BGP A OK, BT ISP A OK, MFI NO GO!!" -- Bill.Peters@bt.net