On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:15:19PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:13 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I must say that I've never had a lot of success with KVM switches from the mouse point of view.
With the exception of some very expensive enterprise grade rack switches I would say that I haven't had a lot of success with KVM switches period.
What I would like (and may even build one day) is a laptop without the computer bit, i.e a Laptop format device that is in fact a Keyboard/Mouse/VGA screen, self contained and battery powered.
I want a combination of an IP KVM with a built in power cycler, serial console provision and wireless/ethernet bridging. This would allow me to setup a new server in a different room to the one I work in (avoiding the noise factor) and configure it up fully; I need the IP KVM to get it initially configured to talk to the serial console and the ethernet/wireless bridging so I can network install it. No one seems to have made such a thing. Worse, in my searching to build my own I've found the IP KVMs are horrendously expensive for the amount of use I actually expect to get out of it (£250+). Bah.
I have a Belkin conventional KVM under the desk. It's mostly fine, though I don't run my mouse though it (I think the issue is that Windows and Linux somestimes talk to the mouse slightly differently, which causes confusion).
J.