[105251] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 16 19:12:20 2008
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <4856F09D.7030409@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:09:46 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Very true. Another suggestion I will offer is that it is relatively
inexpensive to order cables with pre-printed serial numbers.
I get them for about $0.20/cable more than I could buy in bulk
and I get them in relatively low quantities. They cost about half
of what buying a cable at Fry's would cost.
I use a format of XXXXXX-YY.Y where XXXXXX is a unique
six digit number for the particular cable and YY.Y is the length
of that particular cable.
Having these serial numbers triple-printed on self-laminating
labels at each end of the cable makes them very easy to read
and makes it very easy to be sure before you pull a cable that
the A and Z ends are of the same cable, which, can also be
a saving factor at 3AM.
Owen
On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> all you people are just sooooo retro and boring. i like purple,
> fluorescent lime, ...
>
> the colors make no difference as long as you are consistent.
> labeling,
> consistent port use (oob port == power port == switch port ==) are
> what
> will bail you out at three in the morning.
>
> randy
