On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@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
