[94524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Mahoney, System Admin)
Wed Jan 24 19:41:36 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:30:06 -0500 (EST)
From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hey all,
This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network
operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better place
to ask.
Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the
equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with
some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that
repeated every six inches or so using a single piece of string. For some
reason, I found this trick really cool.
I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've seen
it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little luck. I
was wondering if any of the gurus out there would care to share what this
knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if there's a (illustrated) howto
somewhere?
-Dan "Tired of getting scratched up by jagged cable ties" Mahoney
--
--------Dan Mahoney--------
Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek
Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC
ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM
Site: http://www.gushi.org
---------------------------
