I was gonna ask the same thing, but then she called me a usual broken people and I decided "not me" was a good enough answer :)
This was a tortured way to setup a colo. I bring rackable gear, no switch, and use the colo's "setup station" to do final config, then I rack the sucker. They can always VLAN me and my laptop together somewhere for a final check before I leave. I'd be worried if they couldn't.
This was a tortured way to setup a colo. I bring rackable gear, no switch, and use the colo's "setup station" to do final config, then I rack the sucker. They can always VLAN me and my laptop together somewhere for a final check before I leave. I'd be worried if they couldn't.