The NZ Linux Resource
From: Jonathan Harker (jon@jonathanharker.co.uk)
Date: Mon 28 Jul 2003 - 12:42:15 NZST


Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> The number of lightning strikes to your CAT5 should be roughly
> comparable to those to your phone line. How many times has your phone
> blown up in the past 3 years?
> 
> If I was concerned, I'd take a cheap throwaway PC with 2 NICs and place
> that somewhere out of the way as an isolator. This will still fry all
> the networked PCs, but should keep the people in front of them safe.
> 
> Volker

You can get little double ended fuse units for Ethernet cabling. It is true, I 
have seen it in stories.

Jon

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