From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 11:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net (we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net [66.27.250.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D1A37B40B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix.homeip.net (lyvwfg@unix.homeip.net [66.27.250.19]) by we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8SIgZr00652; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear@unix.homeip.net) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:42:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Joey Garcia X-X-Sender: To: "Gudknecht, Joel" Cc: Subject: Re: KVM recomendations needed In-Reply-To: <20010928122852.55A2D37B40E@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20010928113901.A593-100000@we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gudknecht, Joel wrote: > I would highly recommend avoiding Belkin like the plague for some (and more) > of the reasons Doug talks about. They don't seem to have the proper > emulation down yet. Look into Cybex or PowerReach. Okay, I'll take a look into those Brands. Do you recomend any particular model? Right now I'm only looking for about 4 ports. This is mainly to control my PC Troubleshooting/Testing station at work. Also, I'd like to pick up one for home use. There I'd like to control my FreeBSD workstations. Joey > Joel > >>> Doug Poland 09/28/01 03:30AM >>> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:46:13PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > I've always had good luck with Belkin KVM's, except that the windows > drivers > > for most mice with extra buttons and what not tend not to like having the > > mouse go through the KVM. I've neven had X on a FBSD system on a kvm, so I > > don't know if it would have any issues. I can't remember if moused had any > > problems. > > > I've had some problems with 4 port OmniVision Belkins. On two occassions > the switch stopped sending keyboard input to the four servers (3 NT, 1 > Linux). > The only way to get keyboard input to the NT boxes was plug an actual > keyboard > in. Ultimately I had to restart each server with the Belkin set on that > port > in order for the server and Belkin (and/or Windoze) to recognize each other. > Can you say very angry that I have to reboot servers in order to reset a > belkin? > > -- > Regards, > Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message