[150073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Fri Feb 17 13:59:50 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120217185558.GB96943@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:58:54 -0800
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Jay Ashwor=
th wrote:
>> Please post your top 3 favorite components/parts you'd like to see in a
>> vending machine at your colo; please be as specific as possible; don't
>> let vendor specificity scare you off.
>
> USB->Serial adapters. =A0Preferably selected so they are driverless on
> both OSX and Windows. :)
Does such a device exist? I've yet to run across one.
Personally, I would recommend those based on FTDI chips or Prolific
PL2303 -- both have support for Linux, Windows, and OSX.
--j