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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.
-- Brandon Martin _______________________________________________NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog () lists nanog org/message/BWMFMVV6IWRY4TZJA6XLRGPA4F5RLXG3/
Current thread:
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days?, (continued)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Brandon Martin via NANOG (Dec 21)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Ryan Hamel via NANOG (Dec 21)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Brandon Martin via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Ray Soucy via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Tom Beecher via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? William Herrin via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Andrew Latham via NANOG (Dec 18)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Brandon Martin via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Josh Reynolds via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Dan Mahoney via NANOG (Dec 22)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Doug McIntyre via NANOG (Dec 23)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Saku Ytti via NANOG (Dec 23)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Phil Bedard via NANOG (Dec 23)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Saku Ytti via NANOG (Dec 23)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Lukasz Bromirski via NANOG (Dec 23)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? heasley via NANOG (Dec 23)
- Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? Lukasz Bromirski via NANOG (Dec 23)
