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

Thu Jul 8 17:42:54 UTC 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.

;)
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