A comment here, choosing hardware that is built better is getting really hard. I find myself staring at industrial systems that have wide temperature operating ranges. A brand name server may have to many moving parts and poor heat dissipation for an OOBM solution. I know that many don't have purchasing power for vendors outside corporate approved sources.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM Shawn L via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We're still rocking a couple of those. On an isolated management network, > they just keep working. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Chris Adams via NANOG" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2025 12:54pm > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Chris Adams" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days? > > > > Once upon a time, Trey Scarborough <[email protected]> said: > > Couldn't you install linux on the cisco 2500s Im pretty sure at some > > time I got that to work so I could get SSH on them. > > Cisco 2500 series used a 68EC030, which is a dumbed-down 68030 with no > MMU. The Linux m68k project always required an MMU, so it would not run > on that CPU. > > There was some attempt to do an MMU-less Linux kernel fork at one point, > but I don't know if that included any m68k effort (or if it really went > anywhere). > -- > Chris Adams <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RDIQXOK2DWK2CISG5Z4SDI42I73S32KG/ > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/44ZCZJ7GEFH62EFDL6SDZ5EHXDB5ZDJM/ -- - Andrew "lathama" Latham - _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JUTOYVW2CLKNEV66AFGOBWD6B26FHV3L/
