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Originally Posted by CRussel
[geek rant] WHY IN THE FREAKING WORLD would you create multiple cross-loops to switches in your server room???? The IDIOT that created this mess should have to clean it up! I've lost TWO DAYS of a limited trip trying to sort through this mess. With mislabeled ports, machines no longer in the rack they're documented to, and a total networking MESS. And I wasn't even supposed to have to deal with networking at all! [/geek rant]
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Why? Because whoever did it in the first place was an idiot who didn't know what they were doing.
And even a setup properly created may not stay so. Very few appear to be documented, and if they were, it's unlikely the documentation was updated when the installation changed.
At a prior employer, I once had folks from the consultancy that created and built out my employer's WAN show up in my computer room. The first question they asked was "Do you have a network topology map?" I told them I'd been trying to get my hands on one since I came aboard.
They created the network in the first place. Didn't
they have one? "<mumble> guy who did it out of office...<mumble>" That response was not a surprise.
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Dennis