A little bit of the rainbow might spice up your life, Randy. Staring at all that grey cat3 is making you cranky. Personally, I like orange for console, standard powder blue for in rack termination, and red for backbone dependent. ----- Original Message ----- From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Mon Jun 16 23:00:45 2008 Subject: Re: Cable Colors all you people are just sooooo retro and boring. i like purple, fluorescent lime, ... the colors make no difference as long as you are consistent. labeling, consistent port use (oob port == power port == switch port ==) are what will bail you out at three in the morning. randy