What I found when visiting this in my own organization that being an Enterprise and "pseudo" service provider, is that naming fits into several categories. 1. Hostnames/Prompts 2. Rack Switches in Data centers 3. Path. Meaning routed interfaces that the world sees in the form of PTR records. Prompts: {Organization}-{Site}-{Dist_Frame}-{Device_Type}{Number} MYCORP-HQ-2B-S1 (My_Corp., headquarters, 2nd Fl idfb, switch1. Another way I've named prompts is with relative DNS suffix. This tends to work best with routers, not so much for rack or access gear. ex, CAR1.INAP.STTL# full DNS name: car1.inap.sttl.my-corp.net Racks: Same as above just replacing frame with rack# Path: {Interface_Type}{number}.{Device_Type}{number}.{Geo_Location}.{org_fqdn} For interface type I've been sticking to the Juniper convention as I find it more consistent than that of Ciscos. I have a document that describes the convention of every field of every type in order to maintain consistency. What I struggle with is trying to find a consistent naming convention for gear behind the firewall vs. on the outside that is publicly visible. -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.....