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deanwebb

November 27, 2015, 09:24:09 AM
 :awesome: :matrix:

Just had an idea... construct a Christmas tree, entirely out of network components. Some questions: how would we get the lights to be as flashy as possible? I'm thinking plugging both ends of a cable into a switch would be good for that.

Also, which switch vendors have the best lights on their gear? Should there be a Solarwinds display in the middle with lights flashing on it? Or a GNS3 simulated lab that's connected to the live Xmas gear? What would be the star on top? Should it also have wireless access points in it?

Discuss.
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Nerm

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November 27, 2015, 10:04:24 AM
Yes it should have an AP and the AP should be the star at the top lol.

deanwebb

#2
November 27, 2015, 10:06:34 AM
Quote from: Nerm on November 27, 2015, 10:04:24 AM
Yes it should have an AP and the AP should be the star at the top lol.
I thought so. Which AP has the most antennae and/or flashy lights?
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#4
November 27, 2015, 11:08:57 AM
program one of these to run a stand of lights

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/

and hang them on your tree..
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

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November 27, 2015, 12:07:39 PM
Quote from: ristau5741 on November 27, 2015, 11:08:57 AM
program one of these to run a stand of lights

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/

and hang them on your tree..

Hmmm, well... I wanted all the lights to be from network gear. Strings of lights would be cheaty, I think.

But getting the WLC to make the AP lights flash is brilliant stuff. O Holy Night!
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Nerm

#6
November 27, 2015, 12:26:37 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on November 27, 2015, 10:06:34 AM
Quote from: Nerm on November 27, 2015, 10:04:24 AM
Yes it should have an AP and the AP should be the star at the top lol.
I thought so. Which AP has the most antennae and/or flashy lights?

ummm...the one with the most traffic? lol

icecream-guy

#7
November 27, 2015, 12:43:32 PM
no light strings, huh,  how about a bunch of pocket sized hubs connected together in a big loop.  now _that_ should make things blinky

:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#8
November 27, 2015, 04:51:28 PM
Quote from: ristau5741 on November 27, 2015, 12:43:32 PM
no light strings, huh,  how about a bunch of pocket sized hubs connected together in a big loop.  now _that_ should make things blinky



YESH
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Nerm

#9
November 30, 2015, 07:29:40 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on November 27, 2015, 12:43:32 PM
no light strings, huh,  how about a bunch of pocket sized hubs connected together in a big loop.  now _that_ should make things blinky

:haha3:

icecream-guy

#10
November 30, 2015, 07:41:36 AM
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

Dieselboy

#11
December 02, 2015, 09:47:09 PM
HP Procurve have nice lights. And they have a blue "locator" LED that you can run a script that telnet/ssh's to the switch and flashes the LED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuavGOcxS9E

Procurve are the best switches in the world. And they're about 0.2% the cost of the good switches that everyone likes.

SimonV

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December 15, 2015, 07:16:23 AM


deanwebb

#13
December 15, 2015, 07:35:10 AM
:applause:

That is awesome. It looks like the tree is covered with beautiful snow. :) And it looks like it's all PoE, as well.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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