[121867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange Cisco 6503 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gordon b slater)
Fri Jan 29 13:07:07 2010
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From: gordon b slater <gordslater@ieee.org>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:06:42 +0000
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On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 18:36 -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Actually, it's not at all surprising, but it depends on the UART or
> equivalent.
and the dynamic characteristics of the power rails, to a certain extent.
Sun kit is quite sensitive to this sort of thing.
Zonker has a good guide to what does what and what borks in his
conserver pages:
http://www.conserver.com/consoles/
as well as a bucketload of pinout info for console ports and console
servers in general.
The whole site is good reference for younger techies born in the USB
age ;)
Gord
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I'm giving up the sigs - I'm on patches and gum.
