[62500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Mehl)
Thu Sep 18 14:15:55 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:11:32 -0400
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org>
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In the immortal words of Justin Shore (listuser@numbnuts.net):
>
> <Applause>
>
> I can think of 6 different console cable pinouts and connectors that
> Enterasys (Cabletron) has used over the years. No wait, make that 7. How
> could I forget the inherited Fore ATM architecture and subsequent blades.
> Could people just pick ONE pinout and connector and stick with it?
> Please! Of course I also have a Cisco 675 that I've been unable to use
> for years simply because I have yet to figure out what ungodly pinout
> Cisco used in it.
<AOL/>
The hands-down winner, so far, is the Cisco
CMS-formerly-known-as-Arrowpoint, which has an RJ45 console cable
which WILL NOT WORK, full stop, with the RJ45 connectors on Cisco's
own console servers.
*wild applause*
In my fevered dreams, someone with actual clout, perhaps the IEEE,
defines a spec for serial login consoles over USB and all vendors
start to use it, but that's never, ever gonna happen.
-n
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