On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lee Howard <l...@asgard.org> wrote: > > > 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."
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. > > Clever! > > > Lee > >