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Re: Cable Colors
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:02:40 -0500 (CDT)
I don't know of any hard standard in use anywhere. I've generally taken to the following: Green == low-bandwidth straigh-through Telephone, T1, Serial, etc. Purple == Roll Cables (almost always serial, sometimes telecom) (8-1 7-2 6-3 5-4 4-5 3-6 2-7 1-8) Orange(C) == EIA-568b cross-over cable (ethernet xover) Orange(F) == Multimode Fiber Yellow(F) == Singlemode Fiber White == Clear (inside VPN concentrator network) Black == Crypt (Outside VPN concentrator network) Blue == Publicly accessible networks Red == Backend (usually OOB management) networks Pink == KVM (KVM switch <-> Dongle) Occasionally I encounter needs for greater specificity, but, these usually do most of what I need.
Oh. That was the other thing I was going to say. Reserving some colors for "special purposes" is a good idea. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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- Re: Cable Colors, (continued)
- Re: Cable Colors telmnstr (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Derek J. Balling (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Randy Bush (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Owen DeLong (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Shaun Ewing (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Shaun Ewing (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Nathan Ward (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Soren Telfer (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors JoeSox (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors David Coulson (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Steve Bertrand (Jun 16)