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Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:21:16 -0700
On 12/23/12 5:44 AM, Aled Morris wrote:
And this would be one of the many reasons why nearly all of the 1900s 2900s, 2600s and even the behemoth 7507 we have sitting around the shop have no more plastic bezels on them. :)On 23 December 2012 01:07, Wayne E Bouchard <web () typo org> wrote:They serve quite well until I get to a switch that some douchebag mounted rear facing on the front posts of the rackI see this all the time with low-end Cisco ISR products (2... and 3... routers) since CIsco insist on having a "pretty" plastic fascia with their logo, model number, power LED etc. on the unuseful side. Less experienced installers (being generous with my terminology) assume this is therefore the "front" and mount it facing on the front rails, leaving the connector side buried half way into the rack where only a proctologist can reach the plugs.
-- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
Current thread:
- RE: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?, (continued)
- RE: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Naslund, Steve (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Andre Gironda (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Randy Bush (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Jason Baugher (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Wayne E Bouchard (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Chris Adams (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Jimmy Hess (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Jay Ashworth (Dec 22)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Wayne E Bouchard (Dec 22)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Aled Morris (Dec 23)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Brielle Bruns (Dec 23)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Howard C. Berkowitz (Dec 23)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Nick B (Dec 23)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 24)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Wayne E Bouchard (Dec 24)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Eugeniu Patrascu (Dec 26)
- RE: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Brandt, Ralph (Dec 21)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? Bret Clark (Dec 20)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? David Edelman (Dec 20)
- Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed? George Herbert (Dec 20)