[98813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Aug 18 21:43:15 2007
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:08:28 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Steven Haigh" <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ACEB8D4B-2391-412E-8402-D8AD99BD4BDE@crc.id.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8/18/07, Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> wrote:
>
> Oh noes! The terrerists can kill all the airports by installing dodgy
> network cards in a machine!
>
> I wonder if the machine had an RTL8139 card in there? ;)
>
Well, if it is a mess of legacy equipment in there .. there's a high
chance that everything is connected to a hub, and the faulty network
card was flooding the network and causing collisions.
Now I trashed my last hub several years back so I am not sure if that
is the case, but it is quite plausible .. and the first explanation
that I can think of [besides a worm of course, but the article did say
faulty ethernet card].
--srs
