OOB core router connectivity wish list

[swmike at swm.pp.se (Mikael Abrahamsson)]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:

>>         - rs232: please no.  it's 2013.  I don't want or need a protocol which
>> was designed for access speeds appropriate to the 1980s.
>
> I don't think you can get ethernet and transport out-of-the-area in
> some places at a reasonable cost, so having serial-console I think is
> still a requirement.

I don't understand this argument.

Are you connecting your CON directly to something that transports it 
out-of-the-area? Modem?

If you have a consolerouter there with T1 interface as link to outside 
world, what's wrong with having ethernet port from that T1 router to 
the ethernet OOB port on the router needing OOB access, instead of having 
RS232 port on them. It's cheaper and easier to cable ethernet compared to 
RS232. RS232 has much shorter cable length compared to ethernet (9600 
reaches 20 meters or so).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se