[10:04] <daftykins> sheesh 3 support calls all at once, what a Monday
[10:09] <daftykins> glad one has a young enough lad that can work out the basics, had to change the subnet in use at an opticians yesterday ahead of plans to provide VPN access
[10:10] <daftykins> i was redoing some cabling yesterday there, someone had gone off-spec with the colour coding causing both ends to be done >_<
[11:03] <zxmpi> surely you had your trusty cable tester and crimper to redo the ends? :-)
[12:09] <daftykins> zxmpi: well not a crimper, i refuse to put solid core into 8P8Cs... preferring wall socket modules to make a trusty and reliable connection!
[12:10] <daftykins> but it was between those + the patch panel that had to be redone
[12:40] <zxmpi> but also raises the question, who goes off spec? colour blind? an idiot? :-P
[12:42] <daftykins> a colour blind sparky definitely made for an interesting job a couple of years ago, somehow the PoE cables would work for a bit but then fail a day or so after, despite the wrong order
[12:42] <daftykins> once i put one on spec it was nice and reliable
[12:55] <penguin42> huh that's interesting behaviour
[12:56] <daftykins> yeah i don't get how it could even begin to work once
[13:02] <penguin42> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#Standard_implementation  says it's commoned across the pairs; and then through a diode bridge to cope with crossover cables; so hmm