RE: [Sheflug] IP cop stats

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Our firewall is run on an old Cyrix 6x86 133 with 64MB RAM.  
> I've heard that some firewalls have back doors but this was 
> ridiculous!  One of the blanking plates on the back of the 
> box was missing and a mouse had crawled inside and then died. 
>  During my week off work the smell in the office had 
> gradually got worse and worse, probably aided by the PSU fan 
> gently wafting the smell around and the warmth of the CPU 
> aiding the decomposition.  The location of the source of the 
> smell was not identified until most of the trunking in the 
> room had been removed and, nothing found, replaced.  In the 
> end the firewall PC was identified as the source of the smell 
> and, after dismantling it and finding the unsavoury ex mouse 
> inside and stuck, rebuilt into a another case.  In the end 
> our mouse had found a backdoor in our firewall and had taken 
> the offices internet access down for about half a day.

I can beat that! Our meltshop got taken down for several days by a cat.

It crawled into some HT switchgear and shorted out some contacts. All
the engineers ever found was a charred leg.

BBQ moggie anyone?

If you ask me, it was probably the best thing that could happen to a
cat.

-- 
David (who's allergic to cats and doesn't like 'em anyway :-)

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