[ale] KVM or alternative

[Greg]

Try buying the old mechanical KVM switches (4 port) for about $10.00 .  If
needed, you can buy any adapters for the back for about $1.50/ea.  Total
price:$16.00 .  That is what I did for my last one KVM switch.  Works fine
with RH Linux and OpenBSD.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Synco
> Gibraldter
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] KVM or alternative
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> actually, 2-port kvm switches were a *lot* cheaper than switches with 4
> ports and they seem to get exponentially more expensive... try to
> price a nice
> 10-port one.  i don't really understand why they're so expensive... i
> could probably make one from radio shack parts for about $30, but it would
> be ass ugly.
>
> i have the same problem... keep getting new machines, but i've found the
> best way (for me anyway) is to just boot them from the network and load
> the root fs from NFS... then i can ssh/rsh to any of the machines on my
> lan easily... that also gives you some flexibility as far as what you'll
> be using the machines for.
>
> for instance, to run your distributed processing cluster, you could load a
> certain NFS root, but if you wanted your machines to do their normal
> everyday jobs, they could load their own individual or group-based NFS
> root.  of course this can all be done from a single machine.  kvm switches
> don't give you that kind of flexibility.
>
> just a kvm-switch alternative for those of you as broke as me.
>
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> On 13 Feb 2003, Josh Freeman wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't get a 2 port KVM unless they are substantially cheaper than
> > the 4 port. I don't know about you, but I keep having more and more
> > machines show up on my desk, and I kept an extra set of wires so I could
> > hook up a machine when my [mom's | friend's ] machine broke and showed
> > up on my doorstep
> >
> >
> > On a somewhat related note, has anyone had any luck with USB KVM
> > switches? I got one at work, but every time I switched away from the
> > linux box, I lost the connection to the mouse and keyboard. It was a
> > cheap KVM switch, so it may not have had the keyboard emulation that
> > nicer switches have.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > --
> > Josh Freeman
> > Technical Manager
> > Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
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