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
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:55:17 -0700 Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net> alleged:
Take a look someday in the BSD/OS sources to find out who wrote RISCOM and ethernet drivers and PPP stack for it :)
Yeah I know :-) Although I know that from history and not the current 2.1 sources. You don't fancy doing a NetBSD driver ? ;-)
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.
Well we were plugged into SL-DC-2 then SL-DC-14, not sure about the latter, but yeah I remember the situation at the time. It was fun! :-)
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.
Yah, I wish someone would point that out to ISP's in the UK ;-) Cheers, 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>
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