[AusNOG] What's in your bag

[Brad Gould]

A small plastic bag of SC/LC patch leads with barrel joiners of same.  Enough to make any combo you might need.  Usually a 10m patch lead too - helps confirm inter-rack cabling is to blame (or not).

Looping optical circuits is your friend when troubleshooting.


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tom Storey
Sent: Monday, 29 December 2014 14:16
To: Alex Samad - Yieldbroker
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] What's in your bag

In my backpack:

* Laptop and charger
* Bluetooth travel mouse (recent addition)
* Keyspan with adapter and rollover cable
* 4-5 metre Ethernet cable (I've had it for about 13 years, gets a little shorter every year)
* Charging cable for my phone
* Note book and a couple of pens
* Paperclips (handy for getting to recessed reset buttons)
* USB thumb drive(s)
* Noise cancelling headphones and spare batteries!!!

Then one or both of the following tool kits:

* Screwdrivers
* Pliers and side cutters
* Sockets (usually only 2-3 sizes, 10mm used most often, 12mm IIRC handy for unpacking large routers from their crates, the ones I encounter at least)
* Scissors and box cutter
* Label printer and tapes
* Multimeter
* Crimping tool and connectors
* Cage nut tools
* Random other bits from time to time

And/or

* Mini OTDR/power meter/light source
* VFL
* Scope (digital)
* Cletop and cleaning pens
* Assortment of patch leads with different connectors
* Signal finder/direction indicator

Depends what I'm doing. Sometimes I mix and match tools from the two kits depending on what exactly I'm doing and how much I feel like carrying around.

On Monday, 29 December 2014, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com<mailto:Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com>> wrote:
Hi

Just wondering what do people keep in their bags for work?

I peddle (when I can) around with a laptop (MacBook pro), usb-to-serial cable, cisco serial cable, USB battery pack, couple of USB cables and a portable mouse and towel and change of cloths !

Only have 1 phone thankfully.

A
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