[In the news] Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks

[Heherson Pagcaliwagan]

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http://infoworld.com/print/145932

"Jackass IT stunt No. 1: Route city services through a laptop
Ever wonder whether you could route an entire city network through a
laptop running Fedora? Take a seat. Or better yet, leave the chair for
your laptop. You'll need to balance it somewhere to keep city services
up and operational through a two-day snowstorm.
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After a feverish half-hour configuring the switch and setting up
802.1q trunking and routing on a Dell Latitude running Fedora Linux,
the city network was back up and running, with all traffic routing
through a single interface on the laptop balanced on a chair in the
data center."