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


From: Brandon Martin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:17:01 -0500

On 12/22/25 06:00, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
I highly recommend the following udev rule, however, to avoid unpleasant naming surprises on the USB ports:
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001",SYMLINK+="tty.FTDI.%E{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}"


This creates an additional/dev/ symlink named tty.FTDI.<Serial>, so for example:

IDK how common this is on other distributions, but at least Debian has /dev/serial/by-id that's basically the same thing and is distribution-standard. It's very convenient.

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Brandon Martin
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