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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:10:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990705130208.676B-100000@elect8>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn1xbuzvf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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 > 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. 




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