Network Keyboard-mouse-video switches.
Daniel Smith
drs at dreamcraft.com.au
Fri Apr 26 15:42:59 EST 2002
It exists.
It's not cheap. $250-$350US
It's weaselicious.
It's the PC Weasel 2000.
http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html
Essentially it traps the bios calls and squirts them
out an RS-232, which you can then modem/conserv whatever.
Tell me how you go with this.
(The variation in price is ISA and PCI models)
Daniel Smith
Amateur Weasel Fancier
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:19:17PM +1000 or thereabouts, Michael James wrote:
> >Wouldn't you just want a KVM switch. If you get one of the powered
> >digital KVM switches then it even lets your servers boot up thinking that
> >there is a keyboard and mouse attached. You can have 1
> >monitor/keyboard/mouse to control lots of servers.
>
> No, No, and NO.
> How far can that take me?
> Halfway across the room?
> I want halfway round the world.
>
> I want all (keyboard, mouse, video, and reset)
> condensed into 1 standard 10baseT lead,
> all within the server's box.
>
> --
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> a privilege not exercised is illegal.
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