North American Network Operators Group

Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

  • From: Edward Lewis
  • Date: Thu Jul 08 13:45:00 2004


-----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.

;)
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Edward Lewis +1-703-227-9854
ARIN Research Engineer

"I can't go to Miami. I'm expecting calls from telemarketers." -
Grandpa Simpson.