[105276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Mon Jun 16 22:25:10 2008
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:23:31 -0700
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@eeph.com>
To: Peter Wohlers <pedro@whack.org>
In-Reply-To: <485700C6.2020302@whack.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: matthew@eeph.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Peter Wohlers wrote:
> As you can see, by and large, people assign colors to functions. What
> color to what function varies like the wind. Unlike a previous employer
> whose colo-manager person insisted on using colors to represent cable
> lengths (Doh!), color -> function mapping seems pretty universal.
I used to do that too... Until I stood behind a rack trying to figure
out which of the 70 or so gray wires from the switch was the one going
to the box I was having the problem with. Then I bought as many
different colors as I could find, and mixed things up a bit.
Matthew Kaufman
