...it's already begun. From the ascend-users mailing list:
Hugh Tebault (hugh@tebault.org) wrote:
>NETMEDIC does seem to automatically (without user control/configuration)
>ping out to various IP addresses... This DOES CAUSE a ISDN LINK to stay
>up... It sends pings out about 1 minute apart.
>
>I have a protocol trace if you'd like. It took me a few minutes to
>figure out which machine was keeping the P75 link up, then finding which
>application was being so verbose.
>
>I strongly suggest that NETMEDIC immediately post a notice about their
>behavior, and Ascend also post a note with and notify Customer Service
>about this Telco revenue generator.
And Joe Portman <baron@aa.net> also added:
>Some of our users were setting it up to send those annoying "trouble
>reports" to our support mailling list. After about 50 of them, I got fed
>up and hacked our mailing list to auto-reject it with a nasty gram asking
>them if they had a specific question. :-)
>
>Our "egress" router never breaks 10% CPU or 30% bandwidth used (a 10 MBIT
>pipe).
>
>As far as I can tell, Net-Medic is a piece of optimistic CRAP.
>
>Quite annoying and quite wrong.
Kevin Smith Updated Service and Support
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