BOFH "Etherkiller" Re: CMD CQD-220TM problems

12 Nov 2011

...
    Sounds suspiciously like the BOFH's EtherKiller,
the mains cord
 with a BNC plug on the other end.  Ethernet conencotrs are isolated from the rest
of the machine [...],  On some systems Ethernet is also fused (I once blew the
Ethernet fuse
 on a SPARCstation 1(+)... can't remember how). 
That's rather different, though; that fuse, if I recall correctly, is
in the +12V power feed to the DA15 AUI connector, not something that
would be in-circuit for applying high voltage to thinnet or
twisted-pair connections.

Of course, if you do something similar but for DA15, you could blow it
- and, quite likely, various other pieces of the machine that use the
same power feed.

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BOFH "Etherkiller" Re: CMD CQD-220TM problems