On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > 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 > [snip] > > My understanding is that the serial speed can be set to what the > > hardware can support, but don't think that will be the only connection > > But the serial h/w can only support 115Kbps. > > > among the computers - they will be bound by Ethernet. The serial line is > > only because the boot loaders only support serial as a way of connecting > > from another device - once the kernel and networking are up, they will > > be on the local Ethernet backbone as the method of interaction. > > What boot loader only supports serial console?? > > Personally, I'm very happy using KVM... From what I've been reading, unless I went right past it, the common boot loaders only support local or serial console - not something over a lan for the boot prompt et al. What I'm looking at, KVM is more connection with the headless servers than I need - hey, I use Linux to leverage running applications anywhere - the boot-up is the only point I wasn't sure about in terms of what could go wrong that I haven't seen so far. > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net | > | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | > | | > | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | > | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | > | the plane." | > | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | > | Flight 63 | > +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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