On 8/18/07, Steven Haigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh noes! The terrerists can kill all the airports by installing dodgy > network cards in a machine! > > I wonder if the machine had an RTL8139 card in there? ;) > Well, if it is a mess of legacy equipment in there .. there's a high chance that everything is connected to a hub, and the faulty network card was flooding the network and causing collisions. Now I trashed my last hub several years back so I am not sure if that is the case, but it is quite plausible .. and the first explanation that I can think of [besides a worm of course, but the article did say faulty ethernet card]. --srs