[144803] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet mauled by bears
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John van Oppen)
Mon Sep 19 14:51:36 2011
From: John van Oppen <jvanoppen@spectrumnet.us>
To: 'Eric J Esslinger' <eesslinger@fpu-tn.com>, "'nanog@nanog.org'"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:50:50 +0000
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We had a cow break down a door to a remote microwave site once... now we=
are the proud owners of a generator backed electric fence at that site... =
Rural physical plant issues are almost always entertaining. :)
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric J Esslinger [mailto:eesslinger@fpu-tn.com]=20
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:45 AM
To: 'nanog@nanog.org'
Subject: RE: Internet mauled by bears
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:ops.lists@gmail.com]
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> > He pointed out that these are the kind of problems city
> folk probably
> > don't have in an urban area because there is a bear shortage.
>
> And backwoods towns have rednecks with shotguns, and bubba the backhoe=20
> driver exists everywhere there's a road ..
To be honest, while we have had some 'shotgun peppered' fiber runs in our r=
ural TN town (mostly in one spot, due to dove hunters), after comparing not=
es with a lady that works for Mediacom I think it is preferable to having t=
o have security escorts for their crews in some rough urban areas because g=
angs will shoot up plant then wait for the crews to show up so they can rob=
them.
Everyone has issues as which are as diverse as the areas we deploy in.
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