Soldato
How can you say that looks horrible?
Easily. They look like a bunch of plain beige boxes. Are you looking at the same picture?
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Easily. They look like a bunch of plain beige boxes. Are you looking at the same picture?
Soldato
They're cast aluminium. I'll take a better picture.
You know that you can easily achieve CCNA with GNS3 and no actual lab kit?
I appreciate it's nice to have hands on the kit in order to practice DR, IOS upluifts and what not, but there really isn't a lot you cannot achieve on GNS3, especially if it's for CCNA.
Just my 2p.
Here is a screenshot of some of the stuff me and my friends are doing:
Soldato
Here's a phone shot with flash to show it's not beige.
The ugly stuff is on the other side of the room and in the basement....
I give up with the patch panel and cable management. You'd understand if your small company office was in an old wine merchant's/brewery house (which is also a listed building) where the MD can't stop rearranging the entire layout and seating plans (3 times a year, no joke).
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Get some cable management done man!
That man needs to seek help.
I once asked that guy (S Morris) about link-colouring in MPLS-TE and the answer I got back didn't just completely explain how to implement it perfectly and make it work, I also got an in-depth explanation as to why Juniper do it 10x better and the reasons why.
The guy is a total machine, makes me ill thinking about his level of knowledge.
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So many gaps between servers 
I'm like that, wanted an actual lab, oh well! I have a flicker on GNS3 when I just want to test something quickly. And that is a lot of routers!
Quadruple CCIE he can do what he wants
Quadruple CCIE he can do what he wants
Do they not teach how to wire a rack neatly at CCIE level?
One day I hope to go for a CCIE, I just passed my CCNA last month and I loved learning about it all, it's an exciting subject. Perhaps once I have a couple decades of experience under my belt I'll have a similar rack setup (assuming that it still comes in racks at that time, and I would never wire it like that
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Do they not teach how to wire a rack neatly at CCIE level?
One day I hope to go for a CCIE, I just passed my CCNA last month and I loved learning about it all, it's an exciting subject. Perhaps once I have a couple decades of experience under my belt I'll have a similar rack setup (assuming that it still comes in racks at that time, and I would never wire it like that
Been taught how to cable manage is a course on it's own! Some people really need to sort their cables out it makes IT look like a mistake.
Cables make me sick ha!
Do they not teach how to wire a rack neatly at CCIE level?
http://smorris.uber-geek.net/cable-man.html
I just think, why make a lab look neat if your going to be changing the topology often and therefore moving cables around... Why waste time making it look nice?
Soldato
http://smorris.uber-geek.net/cable-man.html
I just think, why make a lab look neat if your going to be changing the topology often and therefore moving cables around... Why waste time making it look nice?
That looks need but that from what I can tell is only the back end infrastructure not what you would see being patched out where the mess comes from unless I am missing something
Kimbie
How can you say that looks horrible?
The disgusting beige colour that reminds me of old G1 compaq servers
Ok so its just the reflected light from your horrible beige server room, still aluminium is not much better... its just apple being too cheap to include paint
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Soldato
It is anodized aluminium, and it is at least 5mm thick throughout... much more costly than the cheap plastic other vendors put on their servers in almost every case.
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Do they not teach how to wire a rack neatly at CCIE level?
If you have a CCIE and any sense you'll actually touch cabling personally about once a year. Nobody pays £150k for patching stuff, they pay it for designing the network, so you don't waste that kind of experience doing the physical build out, certainly not on access switching.
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I'd hope he could command a lot more than £150k
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