[HamWAN PSDR] POLL: How do you feel about HamWAN network having shared control of the microwave modem @ your location?

[Benjamin Krueger]

Why do we need to manage end-clients in order to maintain a solid backbone?


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Keeping the network and all client devices correctly configured is no easy
> feat.  These are complicated devices with 100s of settings, which will need
> to change in coordinated ways over time.  To ensure correct operation, it
> would make sense for the HamWAN network to push updates and change settings
> on end-user modems.  Almost all ISPs run this way already.  The difference
> is you can still login + control your device, but any setting changes you
> make which make the device non-compliant in ways HamWAN cares about would
> be automatically overridden with a config update from the network.  If the
> network can't control and repair your device settings, you would lose
> authorization onto the network until the settings are fixed.
>
> I see this shared administration model as the only one that's feasible in
> keeping a reliable network running.
>
> Please let me know if you are OK with it, if you object to it, or if you
> have a better idea.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Bart
>
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> PSDR mailing list
> PSDR at hamwan.org
> http://mail.hamwan.org/**mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.**org<http://mail.hamwan.org/mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.org>
>



-- 
Benjamin
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.hamwan.net/pipermail/psdr/attachments/20130228/053bbf52/attachment.html>