Advice on dealing with Sprint

Fri Sep 27 09:03:26 UTC 1996

On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:57:06 -0700 
 Vadim Antonov <avg at quake.net> alleged:

> When i was at Sprint it was customary to ask customers to
> provide some assurance that routing information Sprint takes
> from them is going to stay sane.  That was usually achieved
> by asking customers to send in their border configurations for
> review by SL engineering, and some formal criteria (like "no
> unfiltered IGP to BGP redistribution") was applied and said
> configuration had problems worked out before the actual peering
> was enabled.
> 
> Anyway, that automatically made every customer with BGP to go
> down SCA (Special Customer Arrangement) route.  I think sales
> didn't like that, for whatever reason, and i saw several attempts
> to make BGP peering a regular sale during my tenure there.
> I guess they succeded after coming with some "guidelines", but
> without any understanding of the issues involved.
> 
> Somehow i became a big fan of Dilbert back then.
> 
Vadim,
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.

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.

Cheers,
Neil.
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