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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:01:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
cc: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: dropping to single user mode on a telnet connection
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ron G. Minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > Why not just have done with the hackery and use serial consoles hooked to
> > terminal servers all living on a private network hooked up to a
> > management/monitoring system?
> 
> 1) because its one more link in the chain, and links break 
>    when you get to reasonable numbers

>From the standpoing of someone observing the operation of 100s of machines
installed world wide I would have to disagree with you.

> 2) because serial consoles are going away on the next round of 
>    motherboards

Poor design decision?

While leaving the telnet/ssh port open on entering single-user might be
useful, I argue that a serial console will be less painful in the long
run.

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