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 To: nanog@lists.nanog.org Cc: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net> Subject: Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days?
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). -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/RDIQXOK2... _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/44ZCZJ7G...
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