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Re: Worst design decisions?
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog () blank org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:11:32 -0400
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 ------------------------------------------------------------<memory () blank org> "I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals FLAAAA-MING!" (--Homer Simpson) <http://blank.org/memory/>----------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- RE: Worst design decisions?, (continued)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Alex Rubenstein (Sep 19)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Brian Bruns (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? (Cisco 4x00 rails) Mark Rogaski (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? David Barak (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? up (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Todd Vierling (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Justin Shore (Sep 18)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Bob German (Sep 18)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Wojtek Zlobicki (Sep 20)
- Re: Worst design decisions? up (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Justin Shore (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Nathan J. Mehl (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Peter E. Fry (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? E.B. Dreger (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Dominic J. Eidson (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Brian Bruns (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Ryan Tucker (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Aaron Dewell (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Petri Helenius (Sep 18)