On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Austad, Jay wrote: > > Yeesh. An RFC for that? Aren't there enough holy wars going around??? > > Yeah, there is, and I'm about to start one. :) > > I have like 40 different naming schemes on network devices, it seems that > some people have just chosen random names for some of them, and it's > annoying. I want to come up with something that's not too cryptic, and > gives a good description of it's function and possibly location. one place i worked at they used the following scheme: XXX-YYY-Z?? XXX: department initials YYY: local airport code - the company was national, and some departments spanned large areas Z??: Z was N for Novell servers, A for windows server and then a serial number at another place they used XXXYYY?? XXX is department name YYY is function (VFS, PDC, BCD etc... ) yes it was very windows centric ?? serial number personally i prefer to use non-descriptive names i use city names for servers and stars for workstations bad points: people will wonder which server does what good points: people will wonder which server does what (hint: they do not really need to know) Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list