So I ask a friend in the network team if they have an old junker switch laying around

[vi edit]

And he gives me this:

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Ci...-48-ports-managed-rack-mountable/1756737.aspx



Long story short, I ran cat5 through my house and finally exceeded the ports in my little 8 port switch. I asked a buddy of mine who works for the network team if they had any old junkers they had yanked and replaced with a gigabit that they were looking to get rid of. He says "Hold on a sec", goes down to the storage cloest and comes back with this thing.

It's 10/100 and the fiber ports are shot I guess. But I can still VLAN my house if I want.

 

[ch33zw1z]

pimpin.

 

[SandEagle]

did you bring it home or are you using it at work? either way, im sure some rule was not adhered to.

 

[pontifex]

did you bring it home or are you using it at work? either way, im sure some rule was not adhered to.

since when do you follow rules?

 

[FDF12389]

did you bring it home or are you using it at work? either way, im sure some rule was not adhered to.

Are you going to phone the police?

 

[vi edit]

did you bring it home or are you using it at work? either way, im sure some rule was not adhered to.

It's long out of warranty and the fiber ports are toast. They don't really want flaky equipment sitting in a production environment. There's quite a few people I know of with old full sized equipment racks that were tore of old datacenters and now in basements. They just don't reuse/resell them.

 

[SandEagle]

It's long out of warranty and the fiber ports are toast. They don't really want flaky equipment sitting in a production environment. There's quite a few people I know of with old full sized equipment racks that were tore of old datacenters and now in basements. They just don't reuse/resell them.

doesn't matter. there are ways to salvage old equipment. giving them to a friend is not one of them. can you investigate and find out what your company policy is on decommissioned equipment and salvaging? i am interested. thank you for your cooperation.

 

[Chapbass]

doesn't matter. there are ways to salvage old equipment. giving them to a friend is not one of them. can you investigate and find out what your company policy is on decommissioned equipment and salvaging? i am interested. thank you for your cooperation.

Wow, this thread went weird fast...

 

[ViviTheMage]

It's long out of warranty and the fiber ports are toast. They don't really want flaky equipment sitting in a production environment. There's quite a few people I know of with old full sized equipment racks that were tore of old datacenters and now in basements. They just don't reuse/resell them.

Out of warranty sure, but is it EOL? Cisco tends to let you get service on them for quite some time.

I can't just give out old gear/decommissioned here because it's old and not working ... even if it costs us money, we have to do the proper route, give it to the asset company to wipe ourselves clean of it. Who knows what you could do with it ... and now have no record of it going anywhere, legitimately.

side note, sweet

 

[randay]

10/100 and probably could cook eggs on it. you know that saying about trash and treasure... well in this case his trash is also apparently your trash.

 

[SandEagle]

Wow, this thread went weird fast...

only weird to a weirdo. what if an IT audit comes up showing an $8k switch that is unaccountable for? they don't know when it went missing. it affects the bottom numbers. who knows what else went 'missing'? does the company not tag their assets either? sounds like incompetence or corporate malfeasance if you ask me.

 

[K1052]

only weird to a weirdo. what if an IT audit comes up showing an $8k switch that is unaccountable for? they don't know when it went missing. it affects the bottom numbers. who knows what else went 'missing'? does the company not tag their assets either? sounds like incompetence or corporate malfeasance if you ask me.

Probably written off the inventory as junk. Obsolete and half broken = worthless to the company but nobody has gotten around to throwing it out yet.

 

[Chapbass]

only weird to a weirdo. what if an IT audit comes up showing an $8k switch that is unaccountable for? they don't know when it went missing. it affects the bottom numbers. who knows what else went 'missing'? does the company not tag their assets either? sounds like incompetence or corporate malfeasance if you ask me.

I meant more that I didn't expect that kind of a post from you, not that I didn't expect that kind of a post.

And yes, I understand what it means if an IT audit comes up.

 

[DrPizza]

doesn't matter. there are ways to salvage old equipment. giving them to a friend is not one of them. can you investigate and find out what your company policy is on decommissioned equipment and salvaging? i am interested. thank you for your cooperation.

Because of idiotic regulations, we're *required* to pay a salvage company to recycle our outdated hardware, or so I've been told. (Most of which is salable.)

 

[Printer Bandit]

this is definitely not by the book and probably against the companies policies.

what if the switch got exported overseas and the taliban used it? would you want to help the terrorists?

 

[vi edit]

The salvage policy is more oriented at servers/pc's/laptops/drives/storage that contains sensitive information. The more infrastructure stuff doesn't seem covered in it. I think this thing is almost 6 years old and we are actively moving all interconnects to gigabit. No clue on depreciation schedule of these types of things.

 

[PottedMeat]

Power Device
Features (F): Redundant Power System (RPS) connector
Form Factor: Internal
Frequency Required: 50/60 Hz
Nominal Voltage: AC 120/230 V
Power Consumption Operational: 71 Watt

ugh, i'd use it until i could string up a junk wrt54g or something.

 

[olds]

The salvage policy is more oriented at servers/pc's/laptops/drives/storage that contains sensitive information. The more infrastructure stuff doesn't seem covered in it. I think this thing is almost 6 years old and we are actively moving all interconnects to gigabit. No clue on depreciation schedule of these types of things.

What's the policy on receiving gift cards from vendors?

 

[vi edit]

What's the policy on receiving gift cards from vendors?

Don't ask, don't tell?

In truth, no clue. I'm not sure there even is one and if so, it's proabably more of a federal/governing body regulation than a organizational one.

 

[Mark R]

No gigabit. FAIL.

 

[Saint Nick]

only weird to a weirdo. what if an IT audit comes up showing an $8k switch that is unaccountable for? they don't know when it went missing. it affects the bottom numbers. who knows what else went 'missing'? does the company not tag their assets either? sounds like incompetence or corporate malfeasance if you ask me.

Here is what would happen at my work to your dismay:

vi edit: hey give me switch.
network guy: here you go.

*two months later, wild IT audit appears*

it auditor: hey we're missing a switch from inventory counts.
network guy: yeah that switch was flaking out and had two burned out fiber optic ports. we couldn't use it on our production systems. i gave it to an employee
it auditor: oh okay.

 

[JoeyP]

You're much better off buying a gigabit switch off ebay. That's what I did, and have 16 ports now. You can always hang another 16 port switch off your router if need be.

 

[Wyndru]

only weird to a weirdo. what if an IT audit comes up showing an $8k switch that is unaccountable for? they don't know when it went missing. it affects the bottom numbers. who knows what else went 'missing'? does the company not tag their assets either? sounds like incompetence or corporate malfeasance if you ask me.

haha, don't look in the dumpster behind any of the school districts I work for then. The only accountability we have is scraping the asset tag off of the device and taking it out of our inventory database. We have been audited many times, never once were we asked to prove where decommissioned devices ended up.

 

[spidey07]

3750s are pretty much obsolete now a days. It's a high quality switch for sure, and way back then the stacking features were awesome (still are), but lack of gigabit means it's usefulness in a company network is nil.

For sure it's already fully depreciated so it's off the books as far as accounting.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

doesn't matter. there are ways to salvage old equipment. giving them to a friend is not one of them.

Obviously it is. You jelly.