[tophat9000]

Really.. truth is went I tear down and rebuild a network rack usually have tons of things left over ....tons of Ethernet cable, dead hub and switches, old brick P/S, etc.

have you seen some those kluged up network nightmares that some sys admins put together over years and never clean out?

just got done last month do a hotels network replacing all the network access and distro switches.. moving the core, and isp connection and cleaning up the server room..(got to love a site that was using milk crates to rack some of the servers)

[rarestia]

I’ve seen some crazy setups in my day as well. My favorite was an offsite accounting office that had an IBM HS21 BladeCenter sitting on a $50 WalMart office desk in a remodeled bathroom. They jury-rigged a heat elimination system the likes of which I’ve never seen again in my professional experience.

The best part was that their “VMware guy” knew nothing about the configuration. He “wasn’t a server engineer.”