[72362] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Thu Jul 8 13:43:27 2004
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:42:54 -0400
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>
Cc: edlewis@arin.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>-----Original Message-----
>Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest "WTF??" anybody's willing
>to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or
>similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need
>be....:)
In a job long ago, at a gov't facility that was non-military yet had
a "secret" building...probably in 1993 give or take a year...
There was a lone Macintosh computer (not even a workstation) in an
unsecured room of a secured building plugged into a small hub that
was FOIRL'd (10BaseFL) out of the building, along an atrium, into the
neighboring unsecured building. In a nondescript office of the
unsecured building, the FOIRL was connected to Thinnet. The Thinnet
snaked around the office, behind desks, etc., to a small 10BaseT hub
which went into the wall (as Cat V). At the other end was a
Cabletron hub I was managing for the Campus-wide Network.
FOIRL was used because, being fiber and not EMF radiating copper, it
was secure enough for the secured building. At least according to
the facility security officer. I suppose that the thinnet was used
because they couldn't find a FOIRL to 10BaseT repeater.
;)
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