Colocrossing's Million Dollar Routers are Switches... Top of Rack Server Porn. Old Cisco.
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nunim
VPS Junkie
I would imagine that most providers rely upon on-site tech's for many of their POPs, it doesn't pay to have a tech in the area if you only have one or two racks. I do emergency tickets and monthly maintenance for a few clients who have servers in Peer1 Vancouver as it doesn't pay for them to have their own on-site tech.
The quality of on-site support should be a major factor in deciding which datacenter to trust with your equipment, unfortunately or fortunately in this case, you don't know what their work looks like unless you go see it for yourself. Thankfully computers don't care what they look like so while this wasn't the prettiest wiring job, if it work it works and that can't be denied
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I said here and in a thread on LET that neither party in question has asked me to remove said photos. People are getting upset, someone is wasting time trying to get all these image hosts to remove them. Someone is throwing DDoS at them, etc. EIG didn't ask me to remove photos of inside their facility. Colocrossing did not ask me to remove photos of their gear.
Hey guys, I'm right here.
Jon finally asked me if I would be so kind to remove photos of their rack. I'm a reasonable fella and I obliged.
Though it may be too late now anyhow. They've been up off/on for a week a now and I'm sure they've been saved by many members and lurkers.
Hey guys, I'm right here.
Jon finally asked me if I would be so kind to remove photos of their rack. I'm a reasonable fella and I obliged.
Though it may be too late now anyhow. They've been up off/on for a week a now and I'm sure they've been saved by many members and lurkers.
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drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
It's funny that Biloh asks for censorship over here and your oblige @MannDude. I mean he routinely has his misfits modify your posts on LET... in between censoring other folks.
Enough is enough I say.
Time for a whole permanent site just about ColoCrossing and their antics.
Enough is enough I say.
Time for a whole permanent site just about ColoCrossing and their antics.
nunim
VPS Junkie
It was suggested before that Buffaloed should create a blog about his CC "discoveries" to keep this forum neutral and uncluttered.
LMFAO WOW
"While our technicians are well-trained on cable management and server racking, we also will be retraining our staff and managers to ensure such an issue never happens again."
You clearly have no idea what sort of sub standard work your staff are bodging together in paying clients racks, the fact you don't have any idea what sort of mickey mouse disgraceful work is being carried out in your companies name makes you just as crap at your job as they are at theirs.
They don't need re-training they need sacking.
If anyone working for me left a clients equipment in a disaster like that i wouldn't give a flying fuck what excuses or justification they had for doing such sub standard work they would be terminated & never undertaking any work for me again.
While i don't agree with companies equipment being photographed & named & shamed in a public forum the fact that it was able to occur shows your security measures are clearly not as stringent & robust as you claim & if your staff weren't so technically incompetent there wouldn't have even been a disaster of a rack to take any pictures of. Instead of getting your panties in a bunch about the pictures maybe you should be getting your panties in a bunch with the root cause of said pictures your own staff.
You seem to be getting your panties in a bunch about the pictures rather than the fact your staff are clearly completely unqualified to be undertaking the work they are doing & the evidence speaks for itself.
While on the subject of possible legal actions, maybe you should consider your own statement that makes serious allegations about who is responsible which as your own statement states you actually have no evidence or proof to back up these allegations, the correct way to do things is to get proof & evidence that conclusively prove something one way or another & then make a statement with the findings.
The whole EGI company from top to bottom seems mickey mouse & unprofessional to me.
"While our technicians are well-trained on cable management and server racking, we also will be retraining our staff and managers to ensure such an issue never happens again."
You clearly have no idea what sort of sub standard work your staff are bodging together in paying clients racks, the fact you don't have any idea what sort of mickey mouse disgraceful work is being carried out in your companies name makes you just as crap at your job as they are at theirs.
They don't need re-training they need sacking.
If anyone working for me left a clients equipment in a disaster like that i wouldn't give a flying fuck what excuses or justification they had for doing such sub standard work they would be terminated & never undertaking any work for me again.
While i don't agree with companies equipment being photographed & named & shamed in a public forum the fact that it was able to occur shows your security measures are clearly not as stringent & robust as you claim & if your staff weren't so technically incompetent there wouldn't have even been a disaster of a rack to take any pictures of. Instead of getting your panties in a bunch about the pictures maybe you should be getting your panties in a bunch with the root cause of said pictures your own staff.
You seem to be getting your panties in a bunch about the pictures rather than the fact your staff are clearly completely unqualified to be undertaking the work they are doing & the evidence speaks for itself.
While on the subject of possible legal actions, maybe you should consider your own statement that makes serious allegations about who is responsible which as your own statement states you actually have no evidence or proof to back up these allegations, the correct way to do things is to get proof & evidence that conclusively prove something one way or another & then make a statement with the findings.
The whole EGI company from top to bottom seems mickey mouse & unprofessional to me.
3550 doesn't, 3560 does.
When I spoke to you on the phone years ago you sounded drunk when I asked for the status of a customer provision.
nunim
VPS Junkie
Nothing beats drinking and racking....
To be fair, it appears this industry is half full of functioning alcoholics and stoner support drones.
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Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
Some of us know our limits however, and know when it's time to step away and sober up
IIRC, some versions of IOS will support IPv6 in software.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/79981
But yeah, 3550's dont support IPv6 otherwise.
This is one if the most interesting threads i have ever read tbh!
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
It was fun while it lasted.... Never thought showing a non-human "rack" would get so much attention.
The photos will re-emerge for public consumption and long term belly rolling soon. Outside of vpsBoard of course. Just readying the plan and implementing the architecture.
The photos will re-emerge for public consumption and long term belly rolling soon. Outside of vpsBoard of course. Just readying the plan and implementing the architecture.
AFAIK they're running an XE version that I placed on a majority of the switches due to a no ip redirects + CEF bug I discovered where the switches would deadlock (the only time TAC came in handy)
That specific 3550 was provisioned years ago when I was still an employee. Work pretty good if you ask me, my only gripe is the port latency is a little higher than a 2950, probably due to queue depth.
That specific 3550 was provisioned years ago when I was still an employee. Work pretty good if you ask me, my only gripe is the port latency is a little higher than a 2950, probably due to queue depth.
Dammit, I missed the pictures.