Re: Rack mounted backend ideas
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote:
> > It is also more
> > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separate
> > traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more
> > headaches than I can guess at at present.
> >
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Given that you are putting all this in a rack, Have you considered using a
> KVM switch, such as those supplied by Belkin. You would then only need a
> single Keyboard, Monitor & Mouse for all of your PC's, this would get around
> any potential problems you may have with serial as well as providing a
> backup means of using your machines in the event that serial input fails.
That, and you can run X or text mode (with all attendant benefits)
native to each box at full wire speed, which is much faster than the
115Kbps (or is the console restricted to 19.2Kbps?) serial speed
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