On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 01:45:57 -0400 (EDT), freedman@netaxs.com writes:
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.
That brings up an interesting question. I've been told now that I can in fact connect to Sprint, but am I going to be able to do BGP4 peering? The connection would be pretty worthless without that, as I have several networks I need to announce, and expect to get a full routing table back from Sprint. What is Sprint's official policy on this?
This is my experience also, althought I was able to get my sales weasel to say that they might except a 45xx series if it had sufficient memory, as some "exceptions" had been granted on a "case by case" basis.
As a reseller of IP services they will not manage my router for me, but said I still had to have a Cisco(tm) router, even if I'm not peering BGP.
I won't say there's "no way they can know", but basically they really shouldn't. If you disable incoming telnet to your Bay box and tell them it's a cisco with "cdp disabled", they shouldn't be able to tell the difference.
I considered that, actually. :)
Of course, you'd best know how the hell to configure the bay box if you want to go this route.
That goes without saying. If I didn't know how to configure it, I'd go buy a 2500 and let someone else manage it for me, like many other ISPs do. As it is, I'm quite familiar with how my routers work, and what their capabilities are. I wish other people were.. I'm always surprised when engineers from MCI tell me "Oh, Bay Networks can't do BGP4" (ignoring the fact that I *am* doing it with them.) I have two Bay BCN routers here, each card in the router has a 60MHz processor and 64MB of memory. One processor card is designated as the BGP soloist, and *all* it does is process BGP. If I want one, I can get a processor card that has dual PPC chips on it that will run as a BGP soloist. If anyone thinks Bay can't do BGP4, I'd be happy to give them a tour. :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Jon Green * Wide-Area Networking Technician * * jon@netINS.net * Iowa Network Services, Inc. * * Finger for Geek Code/PGP * 312 8th Street, Suite 730 * * #include "std_disclaimer.h" * Des Moines, IA 50309 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------