[159403] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Thu Jan 10 09:01:42 2013
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:00:57 +0200
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <56B39E30-D52B-430A-9E82-57173067A772@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
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++ytti
