[62487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Sep 18 13:28:59 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:15:49 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F69D700.983C3DF7@swbell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
David Barak wrote:
>
>
>>Personally my issues are console-cable related: is
>>there a benefit to the HUGE variety of console pinouts
>>used by the various hardware vendors? Just look at
>>vendor C as an example [...]
>>
>>
Makes me remember when representatives from mentioned vendor made funny
looks when I suggested putting USB consoles on the boxes. Which would
report to the host as USB serial (with possible other instances).
Would make cable management easier with larger number of consoles.
Pete
