Re: Diald 2000 NT plus pack advanced server with active agents :-)

[Mike Jagdis]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Giuseppe Guerrini wrote:

> I would like to add a small patch I delivered some month ago. It added a
> link-up request counter and a new FIFO command to decrement the counter
> and force the link down only if the counter is zero. If you think it's a
> good thing, of course.

My own feeling is that up and down should remain one shot and that
force should not require an equal number of unforces. Experience
suggests that the knowledgeable will simply hammer unforce until
it does what they want and the managers will just reboot the entire
machine with the power switch (more likely several machines) :-(.

  On the other hand an administrative lock mechanism which would
log who, when, reason, allow a password to be set and would lock
the state of the link up or down would be useful.

                                Mike

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