[175015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Oct 8 10:40:23 2014
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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:40:15 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org> wrote:
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> On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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> That would be not-crazy if there were congruence with "DSL borked" and
> "host unreachable."
but see point 2 ... they were supposed to run a reliable always-on
service.. oh, wait ,that's what you meant :( (this plan didn't get to
step3 - profit!)
>>Of course that decision process came with the decision to run a
>>reliable and always-on service...oops.
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> Clever!
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> Lee
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