[22158] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael P. Lyle)
Wed Dec 9 18:11:12 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 14:55:46 -0800
From: "Michael P. Lyle" <icee@phoenix.lyle.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <366EF2C9.1C3BF9F5@alink.net>; from Vadim Antonov on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 01:59:37PM -0800
> I bet Ms. Thorton never heard that TCP can preserve idle connections
> when dial-up link is down. Yeah, dial-on-demand is such a hard thing
> to do!
Well, yes. But if you're on a dynamic IP, good luck at getting the
answers to your packets when you call up and are assigned a new IP.
Having your connection time out CAN be a pain.
Mike
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Michael P. Lyle
Security Architect
Exodus Communications, Inc.
