KVM FYI
Dwaine Castle
dcastle at carolina.rr.com
Mon Jun 21 05:30:31 UTC 2004
I like the way Greg Swallow is reasoning here. I've emailed several KVM
switch manufacturers about support for FC2, but to date I've only received 2
responses and a least one of them is wrong. The only good that I may have
done is to add FC2 to their tech-support databases. Normally, a pre-sales
tech-support question gets answered in a matter of hours. I think that the
root cause may be that there is not a clear KVM specification. KVMs exist
in every server room in the world, so there is a significant market for
them. However, there are several varieties PS2, USB, & IP. Our problem
seems to be specific to the PS2 group and the PS2 group, IMHO, consists of
home users. The home-user market may not be able to compel manufactures to
develop a device for such a small market as FC2. Home users are
contributing to the development of FC2, so I think that asking the Fedora
for some support is not unfair. When I get up to speed I'll write something
I'm just not there yet.
I replaced a 2-port Linksys KVM with a 4-port Belkin years ago. I
immediately noticed performance problems, but it worked on MS OSs. I
purchased an Avocent switch a week ago, and as soon as the gender changers
arrive(SOB), I'll give it a try.
Dwaine
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