Since I've been configuring a couple of systems lately for remote access, which include configuring the serial console, I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to change our inittab so that the default (commented out) definition of the serial consoles is a bit more.. modern.
The current definition sets the console at 9600 baud, using vt100 emulation; I think most of us who configure it, do so at 115200 baud, and some prefer vt-utf8 over vt100 (the two are partially compatible as far as I can tell). Of the two systems I've configured – a SuperMicro server which is the new tinderbox host, and an HP for work – both have the default IPMI configuration for Serial-over-LAN set at 115200, and the HP also had VT-UTF8 by default for emulation (SuperMicro defaulted to vt100 but still allows utf8). Comments? -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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