Problem with monitor/keyboard/mouse switch

[Guy Fraser]

It is a DKVM-4

Here is the link to the product info on D-Link's site :

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=162

Dave wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Guy Fraser" <guy at incentre.net>
>To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:12 PM
>Subject: Re: Problem with monitor/keyboard/mouse switch
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>>I have a D-Link 4-Port PS2 KVM at home and it works perfectly with Linux,
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>FreeBSD, Win98 and Win XP.
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>>At work we have a Belkin 16-Port PS2 KVM and it works perfectly as well.
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>>In the past we had other KVM's that did not work as well, we ended up not
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>being able to use the mouse port on the windows machines and had to attach a
>mouse to each machine {what a mess that was}.
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>>A good KVM with 'keep alive' support is going to cost at least US$25 per
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>port, so if you find a 4 port KVM for under US$100 it likely won't have
>support for keyboard and mouse "keep alive".
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>>Good luck
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>Guy: could you please let me know the model of the D-Link so I can check
>that one out as well?  Enquiring right now about the Linksys 4 port but
>haven't heard yet.
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>Much appreciated
>  Dave
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