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RE: [Sheflug] IP cop stats
> 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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