[Gllug] So Intel removes serial ports

[Ian Northeast]

tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >How will I communicate with my servers?
> 
> Indeed. I've been looking at replacing some of our costly Sparc servers
> with Intel equivalents running Linux and BSD. But without a serial port
> to allow remote management in the event of a network failure, it's just
> simply not an option.
> 
> The floppy can go. I haven't used one in years, except to kick off the
> OpenBSD install. But I *need* serial ports.

What about the emergency kernel floppy? And Tom's root/boot? It'd be a
pain to use a CD for these. For me, serial ports are less important -
the only thing I'm using one for is the modem which backs up the ISDN
(except that yesterday when BT fsck'd my ISDN line I found that the
configuration is totally out of date wrt Demon's numbers and I couldn't
get online to find the new analogue ones - I must fix this:) and acts as
a fax machine (I havn't sent a fax for years).

Regards, Ian

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