On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org> wrote:
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."
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.
Clever!
Lee