"Electric Sheep Fencing" Delivery

jonesr

My order from the web store arrived and was delivered to reception at work.

Receptionist - "What on earth are you building???"

Me - "Huh? A firewall."

Receptionist - "For SHEEP???"

Me - Blank stare…. penny drops... huge grin.

It made my day.

Nullity

Hahaha. :)

Maybe she is just a forward thinker. With the Internet of Things proliferating, I am sure that farmers will begin internetworking their animals, if they have not already. Sheep need prtotection from hackers too. :P

stephenw10

That's great. :)

Steve

stan-qaz

I want to order something just to see the wife have the same reaction.

cmb

Love it. :D

jimp

You laugh, but …

http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/ethernet_over_barbed_wire_arcnet_100mb_token_ring_100base_vganylan_and_iscs
http://gizmodo.com/barbed-wire-fences-were-an-early-diy-telephone-network-1493157700

:-)

jonesr

@jimp:

http://gizmodo.com/barbed-wire-fences-were-an-early-diy-telephone-network-1493157700

That is actually kind of wonderful.

https://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=17227

Really. Just read it. It completes the joke (and I only found it after we had renamed BSDP to ESF.)

jahonix

Makes me wonder if they sell gateways for NET traversal as well. :)

@jimp:

You laugh, but …

http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/ethernet_over_barbed_wire_arcnet_100mb_token_ring_100base_vganylan_and_iscs
http://gizmodo.com/barbed-wire-fences-were-an-early-diy-telephone-network-1493157700

:-)

First link likely describes Cisco's VDSL "broadband building" play. At Wayport, we engineered something similar via the "Everywire" offering,
which I occasionally demoed running Ethernet over a 3" gap.

eSpezi

@Chris: you always could establish a tunnel :D