Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!karn
From: karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on the 15-pin ethernet connector
Message-ID: <1200@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: 30 Jun 88 01:46:50 GMT
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> I'm so glad that others apart from myself are complaining about these
> stupid practices.  Maybe we'll actually see some action from the vendors
> on this one?

Don't hold your breath. Flushed with success in designing Ethernet
transceiver clips, they're now all busily bringing you OSI.

One feature I wish they had included in the Ethernet transceiver
connector is a remotely-triggerable disconnect, similar to the
explosively-driven bolt and cable cutters used on space launchers. (One
was featured in 2010 as HAL's "emergency pull".) I'd wire them all to a
big panel in my office. Then the next time somebody's broken host
software sends out a bogus broadcast packet, I'd turn the switch, and...

Phil