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Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil () EASYNET NET>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:30:17 +0100
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:45:38 -0500 craig () kludge net (Craig A. Haney) alleged:
that was me Neil. what a hack, but the business side of the issue is that the service was up.
Indeed, and it worked _well_. nether.demon.co.uk was a SPARC IPX with 32M of ram running NetBSD 1.0 driving a 256K line with full routes into Chicago and I remember the machine had an uptime of over 200 days, which was lost when Demon had a powercut at Finchley. BUT its a little alarming to see Sprint saying you can only use CISCO routers, when infact other routers work equally well, if not better. I just wanted to note that other routers can do the job. I hope this idea doesn't spread to any other backbone providers.
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.aren't a high percentage of NOC's manage trouble tickets vs actually the responsible group for fixing?
True, but when you have a lot of customers, and your transit provider is down, you want to get things fixed fast. As I said both Vadim and Sean always sorted any problems out. There was only one time when I felt we were let down by Sprint and that was the PTAT cable break a year and a half ago. I liked working with Sprint, they may have had their problems but I think they supplied Demon with as good a service as any other transit providers would. Its certainly better than some UK backbone providers [Hello BTnet!] and as long as Sprint let me use what router I liked, I'd certainly deal with them again. I think I learned all I know about routeing and BGP4 because of problems that we had with Sprint, so in some strange way its Sprints fault that I'm interested in all of this :-) 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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- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Alan Hannan (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Alex.Bligh (Sep 26)
- RE: Advice on dealing with Sprint Christian Nielsen (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Alan Hannan (Sep 26)
- RE: Advice on dealing with Sprint Christopher Caldwell (Sep 26)
- RE: Advice on dealing with Sprint Nathan Stratton (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Mark Borchers (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Vadim Antonov (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Robert E. Seastrom (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Neil J. McRae (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Craig A. Haney (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Neil J. McRae (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Michael Dillon (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Avi Freedman (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Neil J. McRae (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Ronald Barron Yokubaitis (Sep 28)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Craig A. Huegen (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Michael Dillon (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Neil J. McRae (Sep 27)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Neil J. McRae (Sep 28)