[175014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Howard)
Wed Oct 8 10:18:41 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:18:27 -0400
From: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>,
Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLabf53+aq4sHSMRmkA3eYAQ4gFiDx4J6BjxC8Vfoo=9xoQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
>wrote:
>> I am having trouble understanding why a router would need a heartbeat
>>from
>> some foreign location. Or even what it would do with one.
>
>One, not crazy, line of thinking is that: "Instead of being cryptic
>and difficult to understand, help the customer to know that: "your dsl
>is boarked" and that offloading that call set from the ISP for
>something that might be simple to fix at the CPE might make the ISP
>folk happy.
That would be not-crazy if there were congruence with "DSL borked" and
"host unreachable."
>
>Of course that decision process came with the decision to run a
>reliable and always-on service...oops.
Clever!
Lee
