Bandwidhth Leakier...

Prakash is one of my good friends, working as Assistant Manager in Union Bank of India. He had some training in Bangalore, so he stayed with me for three days after his training at Bennarghatta, a heavenly place, I would never forget. Meanwhile his staying he asked me, “how can any one see the porn movies online?” He explained his manager usually does the same job at the office and then I narrate him the same story, which I am going to tell you.

Once in my office, the system admin chief found the server is not running as fast as the expected bandwidth in Bangalore region. He had suspected some leakage or misuse of the bandwidth. So he came down all the way from Delhi to Bangalore, to check the problem. He encountered the issue and found that due to some unnecessary sites, the issue has occurred. Those all sites belonged to porn sites. He was confused, as it had shown many systems not in a particular one. To fix the bug (Problem), he called a meeting with our most eligible Network Engineering expert, Kanhu Charan. In the meeting he explained all the issues and asked Mr. Kanhu to help. Kanhu said, ‘’How can I help you, Sir? Even I don’t know who the culprit is?”

Mr. Chief said, “no matter to know the culprit, could you write a program where the user would be known by its log in ID not by the computer IP address.”

Kanhu said, ‘It is not a dam difficult task, let me give eight to nine hour I will fix the issue.’ Then the meeting was over.

During the lunch session Mr. Kanhu asked me, ‘Ashish, are you accessing other sites which are out of our code and conduct?’ I replied, “Why?”

He asked, “No, just to check!” (I marked something hidden and asked him to explain all the matter.)

He said, ‘have you seen a person came from Delhi?’

“Yes” I replied.

He asked, ‘can you guess why he is for here?’

“How would I know?” I said.

‘To check our internet band width, he is our system admin chief’ he said.

“Oho” I replied and shocked very much.

He could guess my unusual expression at my face and asked, ‘have you done something wrong?’

“No” I replied. “Achha, tell me some thing more” I asked.

‘Due to some unnecessary sites our bandwidth has slow down, it is a very long term process. Our company has been paying for the hi-speed internet but due those useless download, we are getting the speed a little slower.’ He answered.

“Hey man, actually I often listen to the music and sometimes download also. That would be making some harm, they would fire me.” I said in tension.

‘Na, nothing like that, even I am listen to the music often, that gives you energy and won’t make any obstacle in your target’ he said in handiness manner.

“You too do the same, no you are giving consolation.” I said in haphazard manner.

‘How can I explain, not for you? Actually don’t tell any one, few of from our staff are watching and downloading the porn movies, which makes the internet slower.’ Finally he vomited the truth and made me relax. Even in very confident manner I cross examined him, “How did you know all these things?”

‘In the morning Mr. Chief had a meeting with our managers and he asked them to suggest the best Network Engineer in our campus and most of the managers suggested my name. So I had a meeting with Mr. Chief in the early morning.’ He said.

“Then” I asked.

(Actually he knows me better and I have the faith on him. He never hides any thing from me. If you say I am the open book to read his secretes and vice-versa.)

‘Now, Mr. Chief has asked me to write a program, where server can show the user’s name instead of the IP address, so that they would be able to catch the band width leakier.’ He said and asked, ‘Can you guess any one from our office, who is doing this?’

“No” I said and joked, “shall we spread the news, in whole campus that BE ALERT! There is a band width leakier and Mr. Police has arrived with his team to catch the victim.” (We both laughed, mean while we were finished with our Lunch. We returned to the work station to do our recommended tasks.)

Kanhu had fixed the problem with in some hour and went to Mr. Chief. He asked Kanhu to fix the bug in the server. And he did what he asked. Then Mr. Chief had returned to Delhi on the next day. We were surprised, that no action had been taken. The band width was same as before. After fifteen days Mr. Chief came to Bangalore again. This time not Kanhu, he had a meeting with our office Admin, Mr. Suresh. But Suresh was upset after the meeting. We were at our desk; he came to us and said Kanhu that “At least you would have informed me.” We didn’t understand him and asked, “What!” Then we three went to the cafeteria. I am explaining down, what he had said to us.

He said, “I was using different people’s system to see the porn movies. As the IP address had been displayed there in the server I used to follow this trick. But when Mr. Chief had come here last time, he had not mentioned these things to us. He simply asked for our best Network engineer, so we had suggested your name. You should have mentioned us about these. In the meeting Mr. Chief scolded me badly and shown my all dark doings. He judged me as a culprit as I have broken the code of ethics. This is my termination letter; he had come along with him from all the way, Delhi. Now I lost my job. Probably this is my last minute with you. All my settlements have already done. Before going to home I thought to meet you once.” Then he left the organization. We felt sorry on that day. We couldn’t work even, took half day leave and came back to home.

I said Prakash not to these things in the office, as they are out of rules. Always follow the rules made for you, so that we can dream for a bright and shining India. Prakash thanked to me and said he will never do those things which will hamper his professional life and personal as well.