I absolutely agree that USB is a bad way to go with this, as well as web management. I have no interest in trying to use some terrible web app to bring a network back up when simple 300 baud would suffice. I've got no problem with telnet/ssh, although I hate the idea of needing to know an ip address to emergency jack in to a device instead of just a bit rate, but please no web app. -Blake On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
On (2013-01-10 08:57 -0500), Jared Mauch wrote:
I am very much against USB consoles. there can be a whole plethora of issues involved from OS-level to the device-level. When I'm on the console, things have already gone bad. I don't need to find out if the vendor has the right 'entitlement' established for me to download and load the driver or anything else..
I'm certainly not rooting for USB console, I don't want to fix broken solution with another broken solution. I'm all for Ethernet OOB (true OOB, not fate-sharing control-plane), exactly like CMP in Cisco.
-- ++ytti