[c-nsp] 3800 USB

[heh heh]

If you could only use one of the EVDO or wifi USB dongles.......

Aaron

On 1/24/07, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:08:36PM +0200, John Kougoulos wrote:
> > I think that the USB connectivity is a lot more complicated than the
> > traditional RS-232 + has many limitations on the length of the cables.
> >
> > I believe that console access should be as raw as possible.
>
>         I totally agree.  Everyone that wants to do away wit the
> 'consoles' for usb access is missing the underlying 'driver' mess
> that will ensue.  While I can plug in a lot of different usb drives
> to my laptop and have it 'just work' (eg: mounting the flash to copy
> a new image to the router is fairly easy to do), not every usb
> rs232 device will work.  Add in driver matrix where you need to
> support all sorts of wacky OSes, and those of us who don't run a
> network sitting next to the device (using OOB routers and dial-up
> to gain access while we wait for someone to get onsite) then you
> need a multi-vendor serial+usb+??? console box instead of a NM-32A
> inside your device.
>
>         And no, having some windoze machine with a stack of usb
> hubs in the racks doesn't really work either, since you can't dial-in
> to it remotely and have it work at a reasonable speed or reliably.
>
>         This is why there is still a need for reliable external
> modems connected to POTS lines.  (I know some people are moving
> to use DSL instead but there are some challenges with that).
>
>         - jared
>
> > Chris Woodfield wrote:
> > > Has anyone opened a feature request case to enable serial console
> > > access via the USB port? The sooner we can kill off RS-232, the
> > > better IMO...
> > >
> > > -C
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