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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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