Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint

[Rob Skrobola <rjs () ans net>]

  >Subject: Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint 
  >From: Jon Green <jon () worf netins net>

  >I considered that, actually. :)

Don't forget mac addresses..

  >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. :)

I can confirm that Bay routers do BGP4, and do it quite a bit.. :)

                RobS
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