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

ron

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