From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 1 23:07:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10075 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10069; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA28861; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:07:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:07:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807020607.AAA28861@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Why did the chicken cross the road? From: Wes Peters To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 1.6 (TrialWare) X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA10070 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My hidden microphone recorded Jason C. Wells (jcwells@u.washington.edu) saying: % On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: % % >Jason C. Wells wrote: % > OSPF Chicken: the chicken that tells the others which road to cross. % > BGP-4 Chicken: the chicken that tells the others which highway. % > RIP Chicken: the chicken that cant cross 15 roads. % > ICMP Chicken: the chicken that tells the others why they cant cross. % % Would I betray my knowledge if I told you all that I did not know three of % these and had the wrong idea about the fourth? % % These disc access acronyms really confuse me. :P OK, for your elucidation, here are definitions for these acronyms: OSPF: Open Slowest Path First. This is how we network engineers guarantee we get the bandwidth - we force the routing software to make YOUR connections run slow. BGP4: Bill Gates Protocol, version 4. This protocol allows 95% of your packets through, crashes on the other 5%. Rumor has it an upgrade is available for $129.95 that lets 98% of your packets through. RIP: What happens to your pants when you catch them on a BNC connector. RJ-45s don't have this problem, that's why we wanted all of you to upgrade. ICMP: What happens when you hack into a military network and they catch you. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message