On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Note: This is an attempt at Humor that I hope to make my fellow graybeards go "wait, really?". It gave me a fun story to tell. But it may just read as old-man-yells-at-cloud-hardware-vendor.
* A usb "A" port, that presents a virtual serial port to the host PC, but which then requires a USB-A-TO-USB-A cable that nobody has, and is next to, and identical to, (but distinct from) the USB port where one can plug in flash drives...
OR
* A totally different port on the other side of the main ports that has the usual TXD, RXD, GND, CTS, RTS -- but ALSO inside a USB-A header, so you need some special kind of unobtanium breakout box (And another of those for the AUX connector.)
Here I thought you were going to mention that instead of: 9600 8N1 the serial console is: 9600 8N2 (by default anyway)