Network Naming

Tue Jan 25 23:00:47 UTC 2011

Nick, 

I do not believe there is a written standard for naming gear ( or at least I have never seen one) Most naming scheme's are usually something arbitrary

RAS gave a pretty good tutorial on traceroutes once,  specifically he covered the topic of interpreting DNS in a traceroute.
I know we are not talking about traceroutes or DNS here but hopefully this can give you a little insight into naming your equipment.

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/RAS_traceroute_N45.pdf

On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Nick Olsen wrote:

> Whats the rule of thumb for naming gear these days 
> (routers,switches...etc). Or is there one?
> 
> looks like level3 does something like
> interface.routertype.location.level3.net
> 
> Nick Olsen
> Network Operations
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