So ... if he has a dozen handhelds all synchronized to the same
generator value and the each run a thousand transactions before their
next sync up, which one gets the key value?

You can increment the generator on the central system past an assumed
transaction count at refresh, but you can't afford to stop business
because you've run out of tokens and need to "recharge" your generators.

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 08:13 +0100, Jonathan Neve wrote:
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> Todd Brasseur wrote:
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> >This won't be possible because the computers that need to be replicated
> >to the server are hand held computers. They will be used out in the
> >field collecting data and won't have any access to the server.
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> >Todd
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> Won't they have access to the server when they replicate? That's all
> that's required. Of course, when they're not replicating, they don't
> need any access to the server.
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> HTH,
> Jonathan Neve.
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