Advice on dealing with Sprint

Rob Liebschutz rob at rjl.com
Thu Sep 26 05:49:44 UTC 1996


> > > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Jay Stewart
> 
> 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.
> 
> Of course, you'd best know how the hell to configure the bay box
> if you want to go this route.
> 
> Avi
> 
> 


Actually, I was planning to change the login prompt on my BSDI box to



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Rob





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