this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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[–] Shepy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Don't create a loop!

[–] esadatari@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“i hope you set up spanning tree properly and you better turn on that broadcast storm protection just in case.”

-The Port Authority

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The engineer here may not need that, but I think they're plugging into the wrong ports. Clearly this is supposed to connect the light beige Distribution switch to the larger darker tan Access Switch on the bottom.

[–] Chucklehonky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Unmanaged ports oh no.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What heathen makes a flat cable with connectors facing opposite ways?

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Aren't those things meant exactly for what is shown in the picture? Connecting two ports from different racks.

For everything else they would be too short anyway.