Belkin Router issues this morning?

Wed Oct 8 14:40:15 UTC 2014

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lee Howard <Lee at asgard.org> wrote:
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> On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon at cox.net>
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>>> I am having trouble understanding why a router would need a heartbeat
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>>> some foreign location.  Or even what it would do with one.
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>>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.
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> 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.
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> Clever!
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> Lee
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