Neil J. McRae <neil@EASYNET.NET> 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