Linux/BSD: Serial Console vs SSH
Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 10:50AM We will be setting two different server administration methods against each other. In one corner we have a trusty serial console and in the other corner we have the newer Secure Shell (SSH).
Serial Console
If like many network administrators you have managed devices through a serial port, you may like to know that this can also be done for the command line on *Nix distros. It's set up at the hardware layer in it's most basic form with a null-modem serial cable connected to the serial ports on both computers. Naturally both computers must have a serial port, which some newer computers don't as serial port are being deprecated.
The serial console has the advantage over SSH that it doesn't require the network to be running to work and the serial console adds no network services. A serial
