Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: ISP router [Was: Yes, You Need A Firewall On Linux - =?UTF-8?B?SGVyZeKAmXM=?= Why And Which To Use] Date: 23 Aug 2025 05:43:14 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <106sehe$2kv5n$1@dont-email.me> <87ms8dkcq6.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <106ubb4$33em5$1@dont-email.me> <6dobmlx9de.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1070q3q$3m69k$10@dont-email.me> <1083746$1m96$13@dont-email.me> <108425m$7efa$3@dont-email.me> <1085j44$j3am$14@dont-email.me> <1088gh9$19b27$6@dont-email.me> <8bulnlxf5e.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <108ade7$1n7i9$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net bgO1j+l9AmyDRiCP2IVDqw3hMrObjIUf6Y4JELwFQjDU4ipouF Cancel-Lock: sha1:YqHd+85Q8r080vFOsGeRQJb+qYc= sha256:fOUNKmymjkCk7bSdZMU2vNJrUyE/W+XB6RXRVf439Lo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71998 On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:32:46 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > What they did with cable, is that the cable arrived at a... I don't know > the name in English. On one side of a rack, the cables are wrapped on > pins, thousands of them. At the other side, another pair goes to a > similar rack, that belongs to each company. So you can easily rewire the > cable coming from a customer to the exchange, and there route physically > to the rack of the actual company that supplies phone service to that > customer. I've seen telco repairmen after someone digs up a cable. They set up a little tent because they're going to be there for a while. I worked for a general contractor for a few months. The telephone company's motto was 'Call before you dig!' His was 'Keep digging. We'll call if we hit a cable.' I learned a lot in those months about sleazy practices in home construction.