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Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

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On Freitag, 9. September 2016 08:15:37 PYT Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 08:46 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > I've used USB-to-serial adapters with the Prolific chipset.  They've
> > worked fine for me, in various models.  (I haven't tried FTDI and am
> > suspicious of them.)
> 
> And my experience is the opposite. I have genuine (there's apparently a
> lot of fakes) FTDI devices in pretty much daily use for many years
> without problems. This is using ser2net on a local network for accessing
> serial consoles on ARM based development boards. ser2net will be
> insecure telnet or raw port forwarding but if it's not exposed to the
> internet and you can ssh tunnel into the local network then that's a lot
> better. I've done that method for carrying on working with my boards
> whilst across the other side of the world. Of course, a means of power
> cycling devices is also essential.

I second that. I had many weird problems with PL2303 but never any on any OS* 
with FTDI FT232 chips.

[*] Debian-Linux, OpenBSD, OSX and MS-Windows 
-- 
Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE

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Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-09-08 21:40 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-08 22:00 +0200
    Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-09-08 23:50 +0200
      Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-09 00:00 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-09-08 22:30 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-08 22:40 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2016-09-09 00:40 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 07:50 +0200
    Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 09:20 +0200
      Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-09-09 14:50 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-09 09:40 +0200
    Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-09-09 20:10 +0200
      Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2016-09-09 20:50 +0200

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