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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
Oh, just a small note on this topic... Lacing (or even zip tying) doesn't really help a great deal for tracability and whatnot unless you at least do a rough job of combing out cables. In fact, failing to do so when you're tying cables down can kink cables and actually lead to failures since many people haev a tendancy to overtighten laces. On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:49:43PM -0800, Steve Rubin wrote: > > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > > >Hey all, > > > >This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network > >operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better > >place to ask. > > > >Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in > >the equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly > >tied with some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot > >pattern that repeated every six inches or so using a single piece of > >string. For some reason, I found this trick really cool. > > > >I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've > >seen it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little > >luck. I was wondering if any of the gurus out there would care to > >share what this knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if there's a > >(illustrated) howto somewhere? > > > >-Dan "Tired of getting scratched up by jagged cable ties" Mahoney > > > > > > Best site I have seen so far: > http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto/ --- Wayne Bouchard [email protected] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
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