Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () netcases net>]

On 12/23/2012 7:44 AM, Aled Morris wrote:
> 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 rack
>
>
> I 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.

Such routers have two fronts: a suit side and an operational 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.
For further detail about the latter: http://f2.org/humour/songs/crs.html
> I use this as a gauge of experience in interviews for engineers...  "Here's
> a new router and here's the rack mount ears.  Show me where they go."
>
> Aled