On 13/11/2012 21:05, Michael Thomas wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 09:22 AM, Mark Townsley wrote:
>
>> Each and every part of the router must do everything it can to work
>> without bugging the user. it's enough work to bother them for the
>> *really* important stuff like "do I let this device on the network?",
>> "do I allow connectivity with my neighbor", etc.
>>
>
> That and motherhood and apple pies. But then your home network melts
> down. Then what?
>
> I'll say again: we have no experience at all with mass deployment of
> complex
> zero-touch networks. In fact, we have no experience at all with mass
> deployment
> of anything other than flat networks with clients only. As Jim Getty's
> points out,
> we do have some experience with accidentally complex networks with poor to
> non-existent means to whip them back into submission and it's not pretty.
Right. And we're creating a new profession here: "Home Network Guru".
I think that's inevitable, and there needs to be some way of telling
the user "Call your guru".
(It's surprising what Google finds today when you type in homenet error.)
Brian
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