[188277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eygene Ryabinkin)
Mon Mar 14 07:42:51 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:42:44 +0300
From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog@grid.kiae.ru>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C670D46-B1E4-44E4-A11A-BA2CF94A8754@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 05:10:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Whatever you do, please do not use Flag labels on cables… I HATE
> THEM. They are a constant source of entanglement and snags. They
> often get knocked off as a result or mangled beyond recognition,
> rendering them useless.
Hadn't seen that for ages, using Brother P-touch printers for
small amounts of work and Avery Zweckform paper + laser printing
for large cable installations. This stuff (Avery paper),
http://computing.kiae.ru/~rea/wiring-porn-2.jpeg
lives already for 5+ years and outlived many replacements of
spine modules (that's InfiniBand fabric) and other operations
without labels being ruined in any way.
--
Eygene Ryabinkin, National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be
a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
