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Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:57:03 -0500
On Jan 9, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:
Having RS232 or USB console on forwarding-plane is not OOB. And even OOB version of these is of limited value, you can't send images over them, you can't multiplex over them and RS232 OOB 'server' costs more than switch. So you get less and you pay more. HW + SW wise it's extremely simple contraption, all the code and HW needed is proven.
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.. It *needs* to work, I can't wait for the device on the other end to negotiate with the host system, etc.. I understand why people want it, but USB as it exists today isn't the way. (I can screw down a rs232 connector and it can be secure, I can't attach USB with the same certainty). - Jared
Current thread:
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list, (continued)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Nick Hilliard (Jan 12)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Christopher Morrow (Jan 12)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Matthew Petach (Jan 12)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 13)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list joel jaeggli (Jan 13)
- RE: OOB core router connectivity wish list Jamie Bowden (Jan 14)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Nick Hilliard (Jan 13)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Jared Mauch (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Saku Ytti (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Blake Dunlap (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Leo Bicknell (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Steven Bellovin (Jan 31)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- RE: OOB core router connectivity wish list Adam Vitkovsky (Jan 10)