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Re: Heartbeats (was RE: keepalives)

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Subject: Re: Heartbeats (was RE: keepalives)
From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:46:24 -0500 (EST)
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"Michael C. Richardson" wrote:
>   I don't see any complexity, since you see the heartbeat coming out
> of the descryption routines, and not even pass it to the routing engine.

Unfortunately, this puts yet another special case right in the main path,
the one that you want to optimize.  In general, this is not a good thing.
This sort of signalling really ought to use an out-of-band path.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)

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