# Console (serial) port for OOB management

**URL:** <https://forum.alta.inc/t/console-serial-port-for-oob-management/4931>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** router, route10, feature-request\
**Created:** [March 25, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/console-serial-port-for-oob-management/4931 "2025-03-25T16:31:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chaz6](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/chaz6/32/3821_2.png) [@chaz6](https://forum.alta.inc/u/chaz6)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/console-serial-port-for-oob-management/4931/1 "2025-03-25T16:31:33Z")

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In a future version of Route10, please add a console port to enable local configuration and out-of-band management. It is also particularly useful to have a console port to diagnose boot issues.

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**Author:** ![jack](https://forum.alta.inc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jack](https://forum.alta.inc/u/jack)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/console-serial-port-for-oob-management/4931/2 "2025-03-25T18:41:49Z")

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Or how about OOB through bluetooth? Which is what I thought the mobile app was for. Wouldn’t need any new hardware. Maybe support something like this?

> **[Simple Bind Shell Over Bluetooth](https://linuxthor.github.io/projects/bluetooth-shell/)**