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Re:A small notebook for a system administrator by stephenr on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:12PM (#19056019)
What is the purpose of a serial port, If your goal is a portable SSH client?
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Re:A small notebook for a system administrator by piqufoh on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:34PM (#19059431)
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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