On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:36:27PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Also, don't distribute little switches throughout your work place. Get
> enough wall jacks. The only times I think people actually cause loops is
> when they've got a tangle of wires, and they don't know what connects where,
> and they accidentally connect one little switch to another.
Or they're sales reps tidying up a conference room, who look at the wires
coming out of the conference table jacks, say, "That looks untidy," loop
them all up and then plug all the ends in to keep them neatly bundled.
This happened *repeatedly* to us for a while, until NetOps took away all
the ethernet cables. The older switches did not cope gracefully with it,
and it often meant a nice long lunch for everyone who wasn't NetOps.
-- juniper
Juniper * [email protected] * http://www.watson.org/~juniper
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