Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?
On 10/7/2014 17:32, Mike Lyon wrote:
And this, my friends, is why friends don't let friends buy Belkin...
Amen. Side question? What happens is somebody is unwise to use Belkin routers on an internal, not-connected-to-the-Interatubes network (Like, for example, the network I tried to get ex-employer to install to serve the un-patched Windows 98 heart monitors and stuff that were favored targets of the crackers. I am having trouble understanding why a router would need a heartbeat from some foreign location. Or even what it would do with one.
Apparently, you still can't fix stupid, no matter how hard you try.
-- The unique Characteristics of System Administrators: The fact that they are infallible; and, The fact that they learn from their mistakes. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
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. Of course that decision process came with the decision to run a reliable and always-on service...oops.
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
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
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