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

[Saku Ytti via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 21:01, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil () gmail com> wrote:

> From a Cisco perspective when we built the first 8000 (Silicon One) routers, the original 8201/8202 had a separate 
> Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) the same as a server because we thought people would truly enjoy having that.  
> In turns out no one used it and more were confused by it.  It added extra cost and took up real estate that could be 
> used for other things, so it didn’t continue.

And I will apologise for all of us customers, we are wrong, you were
right with CMP, you were right with BMC. It is blind spot we have and
we need education.


-- 
  ++ytti
_______________________________________________
NANOG mailing list 
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog () lists nanog org/message/VH35FIMOSL3RVEPN6CWXHLS3CBOB2GER/