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stephenr on Feb 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A small notebook for a system administrator

What is the purpose of a serial port, If your goal is a portable SSH client?

piqufoh on Feb 1, 2019 [–]

Plenty of enterprise grade hardware (I'm looking at Cisco) provide telnet access over a serial interface - which is dead handy when the thing is running but stops responding to SSH connections.

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