That's also a good question. I always used something like minicom or similar to connect when I had to do that sort of nonsense on a regular basis. I don't know

That's also a good question. I always used something like minicom or similar to connect when I had to do that sort of nonsense on a regular basis. I don't know how one would use telnet or rlogin to talk to a, say, Cisco, router over RS232. You'd have to jump through some serious hoops, I would think, to use rlogin or telnet. It's been so long since I've worked with that kind of thing I didn't really even think through what an odd comment it is to suggest that serial consoles on routers are a good reason to keep rsh around in a default FreeBSD install. It makes no sense at all. I'm beginning to think nerds just like to argue.