On 17-okt-2007, at 22:21, Eric Voit (evoit) wrote:
My parents are not networking experts. At all. But if they buy an off-the-shelf broadband router, they are expected to troubleshoot its various states.
A truism is that more states = more complexity when debugging.
A good argument for no authentication and hardcoded IP provisioning rather than using all kinds of protocols to configure this stuff each time a connection comes up.
But it's a false dichotomy. A complex protocol can be easy to manage if designed properly. 10 years ago I often had to debug PPP negotiations but these days, that's no longer necessary because even though PPP is fairly complex in its interactions, implementations on both sides have matured to the point where failures because of incorrect information on the subscriber side are almost always obvious enough even for non-technical users.
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