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

[Andrew Latham via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

A comment here, choosing hardware that is built better is getting
really hard. I find myself staring at industrial systems that have
wide temperature operating ranges. A brand name server may have to
many moving parts and poor heat dissipation for an OOBM solution. I
know that many don't have purchasing power for vendors outside
corporate approved sources.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM Shawn L via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> We're still rocking a couple of those.  On an isolated management network, they just keep working.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Chris Adams via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2025 12:54pm
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> Cc: "Chris Adams" <cma () cmadams net>
> Subject: Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days?
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>
>
> 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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