[K12OSN] Network specialist foes: rice bet

[Ron Freidel]

Staples had sheets of "dots" red,blue & green, I use these on the firewalls I
build, the techs can go install them without me being there and they know
which for the lan, dmz, etc.

It works great, should work on a two nic system as well.

Ben Nickell (twinprism at athena.physics.isu.edu) wrote:
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:03, Doug Simpson wrote:
> >
> >>Make sure there are two NICs in the server, and make sure the thin clients
> >>are connected to a switch that is *only* connected to the one NIC on the
> >>server that it's DHCP is bound to. The other NIC in the server goes to the
> >>switch for the rest of the network, and it should get it's IP from the
> >>existing network's DHCP server.
> >
> >
> > It should be that simple with the 2-NIC setup.  One other thing to
> > watch out for is accidentally plugging a wall jack to the main
> > network into the client switch.  It used to be that you needed
> > a crossover cable for switch<->switch connections so it was hard
> > to do this accidentally, but newer switches will autodetect the
> > need for a crossover and let you use a normal cable.
> >
>
> Also, be sure to clearly label the cables and also label the back of the
> computer next to the ethernet cards/ports. Color coding Ethernet cables
> helps, Come to think or it I might buy some red cable in various lengths
> just for the external interface on my installations, and some red
> stickers for the correct Ethernet port.
>
> In remote installations, I've seen labs taken apart for cleaning and the
> cables put back in the wrong slot with disastrous results and a long
> phone call or a trip to the remote site to sort it out.
>
> Ben
>
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Ron Freidel
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