kelsey hudson wrote: > kelsey hudson wrote: >> John Oliver wrote: >>> >>> I'd love "sexy", but I'd settle for "not having enormous tangles of >>> extra cable bunched and knotted up on the floor of the cabinet" :-) >> >> Yeah -- tangled cable is a small bane against mankind. I try to >> eliminate wherever possible. I'll take some pictures behind my rack >> tonight and post them so you get an idea of how clean things can look. > > Feast your eyes on this. I have this noise monster in my office at home. > (no, there isn't any pr0n there -- bear with the geek humour) > > > Front view of the rack, and the (highly underutilized) 48 port patch panel: > http://nemesis.damnit.us:81/~khudson/images/networkporn/dscn0111.jpg > > Side view, showing the nicely bundled to-length AC cables connected to > the IPDU and devices: > http://nemesis.damnit.us:81/~khudson/images/networkporn/dscn0112.jpg > > (mostly) rear view, shows the ethernet cables running along the patch > panel and down the rail channels, as well as the networking equipment > to-length ethernet cables: > http://nemesis.damnit.us:81/~khudson/images/networkporn/dscn0113.jpg > > Close-up view of the custom AC cables: > http://nemesis.damnit.us:81/~khudson/images/networkporn/dscn0114.jpg > > > The only cables I have that aren't cut to length are the async breakout > cables on the back of one of the 2600s in the picture. I can't bring > myself to chop a $75 cable -- besides, it may need to be longer in the > future. > > > For those who are interested, the equipment, top-down, is: > > Cisco Aironet 1220 wireless access point (wall mounted) > Cyclades AlterPath PM10i Intelligent Power Distribution Unit > 48-port Ortronics patch panel > Cisco 3550-24EMI layer 3 switch > Cable Management Panel > (open -- someone is borrowing my 3550-48SMI) > Cisco 2621 router > Cisco PIX 515E firewall > Cisco 2611 router > Cisco 2620 router > in the shelf, left to right: > Cisco VPN 3002 hardware VPN client > US Robotics Sportster 56k > > This equipment is way overkill for home use, for the most part. I'm > working my way up to taking the CCNP and CCIE exams, and having the > equipment to hack on really helps. But I digress! >
uhhh, were you going to tell us what the TP is for on pics 87 & 88? ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
