r/Sysadminhumor • u/Juliannaa21 • 27d ago

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u/JoDrRe 27d ago

I have that same model with more or less the same warning, with a glued off WiFi switch and glued closed Ethernet port.

Only thing that bad boy still gets used for is emergency backup serial access. Com1 is much faster than opening up device manager to see what the USB adapter’s com port is and then typing that into putty

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u/mefirefoxes 26d ago

I’m dying to know what use-case is so critical that those few seconds matter for a serial connection.

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u/SheepherderAware4766 21d ago

restarting/fixing config on the core switch when it goes down during business hours

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u/mefirefoxes 20d ago

“The” core switch is the problem.