Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: >> However I wonder why one has to detect a brocken, idle connection >> at all? > > One of applications captures data from various appliances, such a call > data records from telephone switches. If the connection with the > telephone switch is lost, CRDs are lost as is the revenue from > rebilling those telephone calls, and this can make a lot of customer > anxiety, or worse. > > The better telephone switches, like Avaya, have a special protocol to > ensure CDRs don't get lost, but I've not managed to support it yet. > > So being able to alert a lost TCP connection can be very useful, even > though there is no control over the remote appliance.
Agreed (though I have no idea of what you are talking about :), but I guess that's not a common use case of the ICS components, isn't it? -- Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
