Were I in your shoes, I would go back to Bay. It's certainly in their interests to use their corporate weight to get more of an audience with Sprint, and / or resolve any problems Sprint has with their box. ========================================================================= Tom N. Eastgard, Mgr Ph: 206/649-7414 Network Engineering email: eastgard@nwnet.net NorthWestNet Pager: 206/917-0647 On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jon Green wrote:
Hi folks-
I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good place to turn. We are attempting to connect a T1 to Sprint in order to multi-home our network. Currently we are connected to multiple points on MCI's backbone, and have just installed a T1 to UUnet. We heard back from Sprint today.. they are rejecting us as a customer because we do not use Cisco routers. Apparently they feel that Bay Networks routers are not capable of routing Internet traffic, ignoring the fact that they already peer with ANS and several other providers using Bay routers.
OK, Cisco bigots (hi Craig!), quit laughing at me for a second and give me some help here. Is there any technical justification for what Sprint is telling me? I have downstream customers using Bay, Cisco, HP, 3com, Compatible Systems, and even Proteon routers. All of them are able to connect with me just fine. I've been running BGP4 peering with MCI for over a year now, it also works fine. I can't find a single valid reason that Sprint should even need to "approve" my router vendor, except that some short-sighted engineer at Sprint doesn't understand that we live in a multi-vendor world. I'm obviously not going to force Sprint to accept my money, but this screws up a lot of the plans we have made in building our network.
Any suggestions welcome. Anyone from Sprint who'd like to comment, please do so.
-Jon
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