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Re: Cable Colors
From: "Derek J. Balling" <deballing () vassar edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:48:46 -0400
On Jun 16, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote:
Hmm. I've always done blue for "safe" or "internal" connections, red for machines on the DMZ or outside.
I think this varies a lot based on the environment... I've seen : - Red for external ("hot"), Blue for internal ("cold") - Red for external ("stop this"), green for internal ("go/trusted")- Red for internal ("stop this from leaving") and green for external ("go go go to the outside world")
- A combination of the either of the last two with "Yellow" for a cautionary DMZ area
And then there's the environment I'm in right now, where there are a LOT of different cable colors for different reasons.
The reality is, from my experience, to find a color combination that makes sense to you and is intuitive to you and the people who'll be working with the cables.
Amusing cautionary tale: confirm that you don't have any color-blind staff, and if you do, make sure they can differentiate all your cable colors before you set them in stone and deploy them. :-)
cheers, D
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