Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days?

[Chris Adams via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Once upon a time, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net> said:
> It's the wrong gender.  It's a DCE pinout on a male connector that's
> usually used for the DTE.  IDK why they did that, and of course they
> never fixed it because we can't change that sort of thing.

I remember a few such devices from before most everybody switched over
to Cisco-ish 8P8C connectors.  I think Ascend TNTs were backwards?  And
then there were some 8P8C that were backwards (IIRC some Adtran gear?),
needing a rollover adapter to work with the typical Cisco-compatible
cables.

It'd be nice if network vendors could spend an extra couple of bucks to
put a basic IPMI BMC on the management network interface, with serial
over LAN and remote power cycle support.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
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