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

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