September 11, 2005
Re-Stack the Rack
Selling a building, rebuilding the LAN into one building -- new routers, new switches, same racks, same jacks and floor cables. The new switches will mount in the same rack locations as the old switches, to be patched to the existing jacks. But I cannot remove the old switches until after the new switches are mounted and working.
All I have to do is remove the old switches and replace them with the new switches before I remove the old switches; thus violating the law of physics that says two masses cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
Solution, a fold in the space-time continuum. I've mounted a temporary rack in front of the existing racks and have started moving the switches into it. This clears the space in the existing rack to mount the new switches. See the nice empty spaces? Electrically the old switches are still there.
Yow!
You know, for living in the future and all, we still sure do have a lot of papers and wires kicking around, don't we?
Posted by: Helena at September 12, 2005 01:15 PM