Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?

[Lee Howard <Lee () asgard org>]

On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () 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."

> Of course that decision process came with the decision to run a
> reliable and always-on service...oops.

Clever!


Lee