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

[Shawn L via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

We're still rocking a couple of those.  On an isolated management network, they just keep working.


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From: "Chris Adams via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2025 12:54pm
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Subject: Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days?



Once upon a time, Trey Scarborough <trey () 3dsc co> said:
> Couldn't you install linux on the cisco 2500s Im pretty sure at some
> time I got that to work so I could get SSH on them.

Cisco 2500 series used a 68EC030, which is a dumbed-down 68030 with no
MMU. The Linux m68k project always required an MMU, so it would not run
on that CPU.

There was some attempt to do an MMU-less Linux kernel fork at one point,
but I don't know if that included any m68k effort (or if it really went
anywhere).
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Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
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