It's got nothing to do with sleepy IT staff and everything to do with Cisco, Nortel, Juniper, Sun, IBM, and I'm probably missing some. All of these devices, routers, switches, firewalls and servers, brand new 2007 models, REQUIRE a serial interface to configure them and stomping your feet or holding your breath won't make these vendors change their console ports to use USB or Firewire.
-Mike __________________ Michel David Lowe > -----Original Message----- > From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Piwowar > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Looking for notebooks > > >Many, many enterprise telco devices, servers, and storage devices > >require serial console access, at least initially during first > >configuration. > > That's why we make fun of Rip Van Winkle the IT manager. And don't forget > to demand a floppy disk drive too. > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
