On 04/27/12 at 10:29AM -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > 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/ >
+1 on the 115200 baud but I'm not sure about the VT-UTF8 even though I'd prefer it too. -- Regards, Christian Ruppert Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla administrator and Infrastructure member Fingerprint: EEB1 C341 7C84 B274 6C59 F243 5EAB 0C62 B427 ABC8
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