RE: NO multiple logins !! Livingston won't listen (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 06:11:16 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Shawn Lewis shaped the electrons to say...
>OSPF is great, and so is PRI, don't get me wrong, but there seems to be an established base
>of customers here who are seemingly being left to fend for themselves because Livingston must

OSPF and PRI are being demanded by our existing customer base. OSPF has
been in demand for LONGER than the simultaneous use restriction - and the
demand is GREATER.

And we hear from many long time customers that they *need* a PRI solution and
if we don't provide one they'll be forced to stop using Livingston. This
is our existing customer base.

As I've said in a few posts - start billing the schmucks who share accounts
for all addition connections and watch the problem go away.

>stay competitive in this market by offering NEW products and services. As the actual hack is
>not all that hard, probibly would take someone at Livingston less than 2 days. Let's see, at normal

HAH! Have you spent more than 30 seconds considering it? I've spent a few
MONTHS considering it and every solution I've thought of I've also thought
of ways it could fail, or why it doesn't scale. Merit has the best one out
now, but we still feel we need a better solution.

>to have the idea of what they need to. (At least when I originally spoke with them, they sent me
>an email as what to do, and the approximate place in the code to be changed) But by doing it

I know the email you speak of - That is a hack that is NOT AT ALL SCALABLE.
You can't even have a backup server if you use that or you are likely to
block legitimate users.

-MZ

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