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.
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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.
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.
This is wrong, I use IPTables but the device is absolutely not dedicated lol.
The iptables one has me triggered.
That punchline hit like a tree falling onto a network cable.
Excavator in rack-mount enclosure would be awesome
Ah yes, that time a Georgian granny became the Great Firewall of Armenia.
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