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[lazdixi.livejournal.com]

So you say that your fax just suddenly stopped working. That's fine, probably not a hard fix. The programming is correct in the switch. There's no dial tone coming from the wall jack it's plugged into. I check in the telecom room and find out that that wall jack is cross connected to...
Another wall jack.
The mind reels.

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[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

we lost a client after one of our engineers looped a couple of their switches together, resulting in an epic meltdown that kept their network down for the 48 hours it took to get someone with a clue onsite.

And I have often been called onsite to "fix the network" by plugging someone's workstation into the right jack in the wall.

Meh.