[c-nsp] ASR9000/RSP440 Console Issue

[Benny Amorsen]

Łukasz Bromirski <lukasz at bromirski.net> writes:

> I saw customer dropping our 4900M after learning the FE0 management
> can't be used to route it's default route to the internet for the
> rest of multi-10GE customers. "True story" as they say. No amount
> of education at this point can make him change his mind.
>
> You'll hit customers saying it's needed, and those saying it's
> forbidden.

Yes, you can't win either way.

> Again, the same story. "We won't ditch our console servers!" is very
> often confronted with the "Only proper OOB is Ethernet OOB!". Hard
> to judge if you're trying to sell to everyone :)

The server people generally left the serial console port on the servers
though.


/Benny