Randomly replugging them would’ve had the same effect possibly with the addition of arp storm or other network niceties. And would possibly take more time to actually fix than just replacing cables for which they undoubtedly have a schema somewhere.
The last “small” company I worked for did a few hundred mil every year as a whole, and after spending the better part of 3 days trying to figure something out, I discovered their brilliant plan for their entire system is “contract the current cheapest outside company to set up the individual locations, don’t bother with documentation, and hope when shit finally does hit the fan the cheapest contractor we can find will be able to fix it before we lose more than a dedicated sraff would cost”
Swapping the cables can be reversed with a tone generator and some time. The chopped cables probably have to be re-pulled which will take considerably longer.
Randomly replugging them would’ve had the same effect possibly with the addition of arp storm or other network niceties. And would possibly take more time to actually fix than just replacing cables for which they undoubtedly have a schema somewhere.
The network schema is stored on one of the servers.
My site has no schema… Multi national medical device company, 1B in sales from this site alone last year…
Yeah it’s not “undoubted” they have a schema.
The last “small” company I worked for did a few hundred mil every year as a whole, and after spending the better part of 3 days trying to figure something out, I discovered their brilliant plan for their entire system is “contract the current cheapest outside company to set up the individual locations, don’t bother with documentation, and hope when shit finally does hit the fan the cheapest contractor we can find will be able to fix it before we lose more than a dedicated sraff would cost”
Which was not a great plan.
Loop back anyone?
Swapping the cables can be reversed with a tone generator and some time. The chopped cables probably have to be re-pulled which will take considerably longer.
He said as if whatever poor sap expected to fix it shall be given time.