Re: Bug or feature? (was Re: (ASCEND) Doing CLID with 7.0.0 (possible ?))

[Andre Beck <beck@ibh-dd.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 10:58:50AM +0100, Marc Ikemann wrote:
> 
> did Ascend say, that the new, different behaviour of "Id Auth" is a bug??

What else should it be ?

> AFAIK, Ascend planned to change the effects of this switch in
> that direction, which you see now. The philosophy seems to be "NACK means
> NACK". So if you get the CLID from an incoming user and there is no
> profile for this number - there is no chance for the user to log in.

This is nonsense. It breaks the NAS for probably every second ISP in
the world. Please remember that ISDN is still a european and especially
german domain, IIRC Germany has 30% of all ISDN endpoints worldwide.
Ignoring this market by breaking such _basic_ functionality almost
every ISP here is using daily and is requiring for proper operations
is beyond stupidity.

How the hack should one PPP-Auth a caller who sends a CLID without
losing CLID capability at all ?

BTW, when did they announce this change in the philosophy ? I can't
remember reading anything about that in the release notes for 7.0b7.
Nor before.

> Therefore, I expect that Ascend says: Works as (new) designed.

If they do _that_ it would be the final step that goes too far.
I would start bashing them to hell, because I had to replace all our
NASes with other vendors products in order to continue business, or
stay stuck with a buggy software. But I don't expect them to be really
that silly, they just broke it in 7.0b7 (I even wrote about this
problem here on the list when we saw it) and released it in 7.0.0
(seems I _should_ have done a TR, finally - but then again, who pays
me for doing so). They will fix it. Or go down the drain in ISDN-Land.

Andre.
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