Tape over the ports?

RJ45 with no cables crimped in plugged into the ports?
RJ45 with a tiny bit of cable crimped in with a "BAD PORT" label?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Florian Heigl <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> last weekend I did some rehaul at a customer site. They have a very old
> installation and it seems both the cabling and the wall outlets can be
> really picky.
> Now all on-site users should have working networking again, but in the
> course I’ve found quite a few broken ports and heard stories like “yeah
> they hooked my pc up to the one in the next room because here it didn’t
> work” - meaning that a number of ethernet ports / cables is just dead…
>
> I don’t want to “find” them again and again, so I wonder what you guys do
> to mark dead ports
>  - in offices
>  - at the patch panel
>  - at the switch (if so)
>
> I’m also not sure if there’s a map of floor / room number to port number…
> Any hints for the survey?
>
> Thankful for all your experiences :)
> Florian
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