[12497] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Physical transport media
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Engstrom)
Thu Sep 18 11:19:14 1997
From: Per Engstrom <PEngstrom@ixc-comm.net>
To: "'Michael Dillon'" <michael@priori.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:00:28 -0500
> At 5:04 PM -0400 9/16/97, Tim Gibson wrote:
> >If I may be so bold here Michael, the TTL of steel is significantly
> less
> >than so many other datagrams, many due to R.educed U.seable S.urface
> >T.ransparancy.
>
> We think that we have the R.U.S.T problem licked by using stainless
> steel
> BBs and by using a petroleum based liquid transport medium. We need
> the
> mass of steel in the datagrams to protect against backhoe fade. After
> a few
> backhoe operators get torn to shreds by a stream of IP packets from
> cut
> transport pipes, those big yellow machines will show a little more
> respect
> and watch where they stick their big yellow buckets.
>
I can see it now... " We have a BS-3 down due to oil change
maintenance."
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