• Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
    3 years

    That punchline hit like a tree falling onto a network cable.

  • pwshguy (mdowst)@programming.devEnglish
    3 years

    I’ve actually had an excavator take out my network. I’ve also had networks taken out by forklift, train, and a semi-truck towing three other semi-trucks.

    • WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      3 years

      How about a bus? The fiber to a datacenter i used to work at kept going out at almost consistent intervals during almost normal business hours. Turns out the conduit wasn’t deep enough and the city built a bus stop on top of it and it would sag just enough to go out but only when a bus was at the stop.

      • pwshguy (mdowst)@programming.devEnglish
        3 years

        That’s pretty similar with what happened with me and the train. Kept getting random drops from a plant. I went out to investigate and everything tested perfect and the network was staying up. That was until a freight train rolled by. Turns out AT&T had run the line by shoving a piece of PVC through the gravel between two cross-ties, then running the cable through it.

  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.ccEnglish
    3 years

    Ah yes, that time a Georgian granny became the Great Firewall of Armenia.

      • Thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.ukEnglish
        3 years

        Who needs all this crazy firewall stuff when I have my

        iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu
iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -j DROP

        And for IPv6 you don’t need a firewall, just use slaac and hope no one finds the address /s

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 years

    Cisco Automatic Telecommunications Excavator: for all your internet connection restricting needs!

    • Caust1c@programming.devEnglish
      3 years

      I’m at the top right myself. 😆

      Not as fast as ASIC firewalls, but way more flexible and fast enough for home routing.