[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[Nick Hilliard]

Saku Ytti wrote on 23/07/2020 10:06:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 11:02, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:
> 
>> The other option we'd looked at was the SSM (Smart Software Manager)
>> on-prem, as I'm not keen on having routers make arbitrary calls to some
>> cloud over at Cisco.
> 
> You could also use local HTTP proxy, which may be less OPEX to
> maintain or may already exist.

The whole idea of having your routing stack poll a remote server with a 
query which essentially asks "should I continue to operate?" with a 
default answer of "No" seems like a unusually stupid way to provision a 
network.  Regardless of the timeout parameters.

Nick