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mkopinsky on Nov 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why everyone hates the IT department

The IT department's morale builder is a contest where the winner gets to pull the network cable from one luser's cube.

oz on Nov 27, 2011 [–]

Pull network cable? Pfthah! We disable the port at the switch...

  SW1(config)#int Fa0/1
  SW1(config-if)#shutdown
  1w4d: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed      state to administratively down
  1w4d: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface   FastEthernet0/1 changed state to down

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