Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:13:10 -0800 From: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> To: Steve Willoughby <steve@alchemy.com>, Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, Marc Giannoni <marc@versa.eng.comsat.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console Switchboxes Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990104191310.04084510@ccsales.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901041839430.7758-100000@elemental.alchemy. com> References: <4.1.19990104165644.00b60100@mail-r>
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I'm using the exact same switches and they work perfectly...once I had to call tech support and it was similar to your problem...have you tried Belkin tech support? After all it is a commercial product... At 06:58 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Steve Willoughby wrote: >On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: >> Get yourself a nice non-mechanical switchbox. You'll end up doing so in the >> future when the cheap one becomes unusable. > >Definately. But I'm having this problem even then. I have a pair of >nice non-mechanical switchboxes which do all the keyboard-spoofing to >all hosts and all that (i.e., if a machine boots, it "sees" a keyboard >even if it's not the one switched to the actual keyboard). > >This one (Belkin OmniView) is cascadable so that you can put up to 64 >systems on a single console, like this: > _______ >[monitor]-----| | >[keyboard]----|_______| > | | | | _______ > [cpu1]__| | | |_____| | > [cpu2]____| | |_______| > [cpu3]______| | | | | > [cpu4]_______________| | | | > [cpu5]_________________| | | > [cpu6]___________________| | > [cpu7]_____________________| > >but it's not behaving like the manual claims it should either. I get >the same "keyboard loss" problem when switching to any of the CPUs on >the 2nd-tier switchbox. I have to power-cycle the 1st-tier box to get >them back. So nothing's a perfect solution, it seems :) > >I guess that's a long winded way to say "Yes, I agree", but you never >know if someone else out there has seen the same issues with the same >hardware. > >-Steve > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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