[105245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 16 18:59:29 2008
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org>
In-Reply-To: <4856EC12.30500@wingfoot.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:56:45 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I don't know of any hard standard in use anywhere. I've generally taken
to the following:
Green == low-bandwidth straigh-through
Telephone, T1, Serial, etc.
Purple == Roll Cables (almost always serial, sometimes telecom)
(8-1 7-2 6-3 5-4 4-5 3-6 2-7 1-8)
Orange(C) == EIA-568b cross-over cable (ethernet xover)
Orange(F) == Multimode Fiber
Yellow(F) == Singlemode Fiber
White == Clear (inside VPN concentrator network)
Black == Crypt (Outside VPN concentrator network)
Blue == Publicly accessible networks
Red == Backend (usually OOB management) networks
Pink == KVM (KVM switch <-> Dongle)
Occasionally I encounter needs for greater specificity, but, these
usually do most of what I need.
I'm sure others use entirely different choices.
Owen
