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I'm not sure what such an approach would accomplish. If the goal is to prevent the kind of problem seen in the OP (which, let's be real - is a rare occurrence)
by luma 2y ago
I'm not sure what such an approach would accomplish. If the goal is to prevent the kind of problem seen in the OP (which, let's be real - is a rare occurrence) in order to avoid an unplanned outage, you've instead created a situation where it'll fail to connect far more regularly as you're kicked off the network for not correctly handling the provisioning process. You're trading a rare unplanned outage for a common unplanned outage.
- Scoundreller 2y agoDepends how often the provider pushes out updates (and the purpose/necessity of them). And it’s only that “rare unplanned outage” when a malicious update bricks your device. Much worse is a malicious update that doesn’t result in an outage. Probably still rare but that impact though. Edit: would also add that there’s probably a big firmware chip that changes infrequently, and frequently changing config stored on a separate and smaller chip (like a 24c or 93 series eeprom that holds a few kilobytes). That way you don’t risk bricking your modem by unplugging it at the wrong time.