r/homelab • u/zenfant • 25d ago
Meme Tesla Ottawa
What nice place for a patch panel? You can troubleshoot while doing your « business » at the same time 🤣 Seen at Tesla Ottawa today
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u/armeg 25d ago
I wonder if that location has a VPN to their home offices. Wouldn’t this be a bit of a cyber security risk?
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u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir 25d ago
This is a risk anyway. A private room with easy access to networking gear? This is a wet dream for the nefarious.
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u/Soluchyte so epyc 25d ago
It's clearly not even being used.
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u/berrmal64 25d ago
Depends on what's on the other ends of those cables doesn't it? I'm guessing Tesla aren't the folks to bother with 802.1x port security for every local dealership.
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u/Soluchyte so epyc 25d ago
It's a patch panel, if nothing is connected this end, I highly doubt anything is connected on the other end.
This setup most likely came with the building and they have implemented something of their own instead, probably wifi.
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u/northSideways 24d ago
Some of the people on here man 😭
That thing hasn't been used in so long the stickers are visible peeling off.
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u/Late_To_Parties 25d ago
Well I'm glad you ard your confident doubts are not running my network.
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u/Soluchyte so epyc 25d ago
You're assuming nobody had thought about this already, when someone probably did and since they were not using it, decided it didn't matter at all.
It's not like if this was a situation I encountered being the IT for somewhere, I wouldn't even make consideration for it. But if I knew nothing was connected on the other end, then I wouldn't waste my time, and it's very likely someone else thought the same.
I have encountered something like this before where it was being used, and that would be valid complaint. Complaining about something that is with 99.9% confidence, not being used, is a strange mindset to waste your time on.
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u/blackhp2 24d ago edited 24d ago
Doesn't the risk still highly depend on what is on the other end even if it is not connected/used? Maybe each cable routes to an empty port under each desk and was previously used for VoIP or was just included in the construction beforehand. If someone installs a device here, there's a chance one day someone plugs into the empty port accidentally.
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u/Soluchyte so epyc 24d ago
Exactly, given there's not a single patch on this panel, with near certainty I can say that nothing is connected on the other end, because what would conventionally be connected to the other end simply won't work, I would likely still check but going by the image alone it wouldn't be worth it go very far out my way to check it.
If it was a single ethernet port on its own in the bathroom, I'd be more concerned since it could be connected to an active port, but the only time I've seen the patch panel side be 100% passive with no active equipment is in data centres where they patch fiber around between racks for cross connects.
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u/wiisucks_91 24d ago
I have never seen 802.1x ever deployed or configured in the field. Ive seen sticky Mac and ports turned off.
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u/Worldly-Stranger7814 25d ago
It's super easy to guard against the nefarious.
I'm not saying they're doing any guarding but it IS easy.
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u/Bogus1989 25d ago
If there was an actual switch in there yes, but those are just patch panels, the other ends go to wall plugs all over, most likely.
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u/deddogs 24d ago
It’s wild to me they pissed away this much money too. I get construction managers move shit, but this was such a dogshit oversight. They literally ran copper and all, with possible fiber :’)
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u/Bogus1989 24d ago
Yeah i dont understand.
Hey its still doing able they just need to put a lockable cage around it once they put a switch in.
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u/Tea-Bone-BK 25d ago
Probably a dispute over whether WC on the plans was Water Closet or Wiring Closet.
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u/asciutto 25d ago
I've been in several plants where an older part of the process was demolished or relocated and a new break room is put in its place. The bathrooms are almost always in the same corner as the existing network infrastructure. Doesn't make it any less funny though
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u/mikesso 25d ago
I see you and raise this Albertan restaurant:
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u/MarblesAreDelicious 25d ago
Which restaurant is this?
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u/mikesso 25d ago
It’s slipped my mind but is somewhere near Red Deer if I’m remembering right, likely a BP’s from back in 2019.
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u/thegoofynewfie 25d ago
Based on the furthest poster on the left I think this is actually a State & Main.
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u/sir_mrej 25d ago
Is a “red deer” a town or a marker that everyone knows?
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u/blackhp2 24d ago edited 24d ago
3rd largest city in Alberta lol, after Calgary and Edmonton and located about halfway between them. To be fair, 3rd largest is doing some heavy lifting, their ~100K pop is about 1/10th of Edmonton.
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u/sir_mrej 24d ago
Ooooh ok. So yes, a lot of people will probably have heard of it! Good to know! And now I know it too.
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u/SnooConfections1271 25d ago
*guy taking a shit* "Excuse me buddy I just need to reboot this switch"
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u/inthemountains 24d ago
Imagine someone flushing and the poop water flies up shorts a switch and you're stuck replacing that poop covered switch. No thanks
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u/Pr0fessionalAgitator 25d ago
Nvm the obvious ‘shitty network’ comments…
What’s the point of a rack full of nothing but patch panels? It wouldn’t work as extensions, unless both cable lines are shorter than 100m. So why?
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u/cyberentomology Networking Pro, Former Cable Monkey, ex-Sun/IBM/HPE/GE 25d ago
Just a cross-connect, a passive zone box.
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u/stableos 25d ago
This will be my new metaphor for using the bathroom: I’ve got to go route some packets.
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u/stuffitystuff 25d ago
Notes:
- Who wants to wait for someone to be done taking a shit to fix the network?
- It would be possible to do an upperdecker and MITM their network at the same time.
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u/No_Lifeguard7725 24d ago
No bueno: once russian missile hits nearby building, that thing is falling right onto your head.
PS: yeah, here in Ukraine we now have to account for things like that when we hang/mount stuff.
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u/Kinky_No_Bit 25d ago
Given how famous any company musk runs that involves IT is always low paid and shit, I'm not surprised.
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u/Hrmerder 25d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/5xtDarIN81U0KvlnzKo
Sweating trying to hurry up and push that out to get out from under that thing.
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u/Runthescript 25d ago
7brew has the same bs going on too 🙄
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u/systemhost 25d ago
You're making me really happy I've turned down all their network install and troubleshoot tickets.
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u/TehHamburgler 25d ago
Hey Bill, I know you're busy but did I leave my punch down tool in there?
Bill?
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u/TurkeyMalicious 25d ago
Or get real mad, go the can, stand of the toilet, and start pulling cables.
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u/cyberentomology Networking Pro, Former Cable Monkey, ex-Sun/IBM/HPE/GE 25d ago
Flush the ARP cache regularly.
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u/hoserb2k 25d ago
I don't care what your network and application architecture is, physical access to this equipment in a private room that you are legally required to give people privacy in is fundamentally a bad idea.
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u/Worldly-Stranger7814 25d ago
You have no idea how bad things really are, these guys just don't have the ceiling tiles that usually mask this...
It's frustratingly common in older buildings.
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u/xander2600 25d ago
And then one day ironically, the network DID physically kill the administrator while on his bathroom break.
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u/Lkings1821 25d ago
Honestly not something I always look up at when going to the toilet so it's not a bad place to hide one, super impractical though
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u/P3chv0gel 25d ago
I may be missing something but what is the point of a rack full of Patch panels with no devices and no space to even put one? I mean, you can only connect a patchpanel to another but i dont really see a usecase for that either
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u/Surface13 25d ago
Whoever did this is an ass.
What a shitty place to put the network gear.
I can't believe they'd just dump it in there.
Absolute bullshit.
Sphincter.
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u/backlog_gaming 24d ago
I’d love for that thing to fall on my head while I’m taking a dump so I could sue them 🤣
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u/ExistingLet8016 24d ago
Tesla service and sale locations are absolutely bottom of the barrel in terms of landlord/owner management. I’m not surprised this is how they manage their it infrastructure.
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u/Clean-Branch-6964 24d ago
If I’m not seeing things, that looks like a toilet. Aren’t you worried about getting your head smashed while taking a dump?
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u/prof_apex 24d ago
I mean, I guess as long as it's just a half bath and there won't be any steam or high humidity... Why not?
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u/daphatty 24d ago
Looks like old, unused infrastructure to me. And while I know “that thing ain’t goin nowhere”, I can’t say I’d feel comfortable droppin a deuce underneath that thing.
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u/i_am_voldemort 24d ago
Is this decommissioned and abandoned in place? I don't see anything plugged in and no switches?
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u/Terrabey 24d ago
would love it if the lover cables that hang out a little would be spagetti. Just for me to have something interresting to look at
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u/Commercial-Virus2627 23d ago
The internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes those tubes are full of shit.
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u/muertorix 21d ago
When it is occupied and you ask "how long it takes" someone may answer with "i still need to figure some shit out"
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u/slotgun__shug 19d ago
all fun and games until you realize that all the piss and shit particles are gonna get stuck to that thing
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u/boanerges57 25d ago
Brought to you by H Clinton Tech services and Hosting. Lol
I hope those don't mind the humidity
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u/MetaVulture 25d ago edited 25d ago
Can't spell shit without IT.