From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 5 4:11: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B36E14DB9 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 04:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id NAA06391; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:10:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Josef Karthauser , Ollivier Robert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Personally, I find it much more gratifying to just walk in, confiscate > the Ethernet cable, and walk right out again. Of course, that's just > for effect (and personal gratification); you can't watch his face > while you pull the cable from the patch panel or disable the port he's > hooked up to on backbone switch, since you don't let him into the NOC. > > (Yes, I used to read bofh.* and the Scary Devil Monastery on a regular > basis. I don't have time for that any more, unfortunately.) We had a couple of misbehaving NT/Windows machines, having a submask of 255.255.0.0, all trying to find their domain controller at the same time, creating huge piles of fragments and broadcasts on the sitewide net (yep, flat B IP-space, all bridged with cheap bridges :-( The whole site of 2000 people was unreachable. The system administrator of that building claimed it was not his fault until someone walked in and tore out the fibre, damaging the ethernet controller of the bridhe and the cable in the process, on purpose. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message