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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:15:13 -0700
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <drjuice@ieee.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: KVM for eCS...?

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One thing I forgot to say last night is that, late this year, I'm going
to build three VMWare based boxes which will have all the OSs on them
and those three will all be attached to one KVM so I'll have two spare
KVM Kits.

--
\ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
0 Email: drjuice@ieee.org
Oo "There is always hope."
My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif
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GAT/d+(--) s++ a+++ C+++ UB++ UL++ US++ P+ L+ !e W+++
!N !o !K w+ O+ !M V PS+ PE- T++ PGPP t- 5 X R+++
tv+ b++++ DI+ D---G e+++ h+ r x?
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Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. wrote:

> Hi, Martin -
>
> I have three Belkin KVM switches that also handle audio. The reason I
> have three is because I have twelve systems all together and three are
> attached to each switch, except one has four. I thought about daisy
> chaining them, but that wound up adding a level of complexity that I
> just WAY didn't like. As I recall, I got the Belkin switches at
> Fry's. I don't remember whether they were least expensive or not, but
> they were probably pretty close to least expensive.
> I briefly considered getting just the switches; but, once I found out
> the cost of the cables, I abandoned that idea incredibly quickly. It
> was about 1/2 the cost to buy the kits instead of the switches and
> cables separately.
>
> As for specs, if you have a funky setup, make sure the system can deal
> with it. For example, my two dual-headed systems have their own
> monitors because I had no way to attach two monitors to the KVM.
>
> The systems I have attached to the KVMs (1 per OS unless noted) are 2
> WinXPPro, Win2KPro, SuSE 8.0, SuSE 9.0, Fedora (don't remember the
> v#), FreeBSD 6.3, FreeBSD 7.0, Red Hat Enterprise (don't remember the
> v#), sandboxes for WinXPPro, SuSE10, FreeBSD7.0,
>
> HTH.
>
> v
> --
>
> \ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
> 0 Email: drjuice@ieee.org
> Oo "There is always hope."
> My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------
> GAT/d+(--) s++ a+++ C+++ UB++ UL++ US++ P+ L+ !e W+++
> !N !o !K w+ O+ !M V PS+ PE- T++ PGPP t- 5 X R+++
> tv+ b++++ DI+ D---G e+++ h+ r x?
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK-------
>
>
>
> Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>> I am thinking of using a KVM to switch between an eCS and a Win2K
>> box, sharing flat screen monitor, PS2 keyboard and Logitek trackball
>> (PS2 or USB). Can someone recommend an inexpensive KVM to do this, or
>> tell me what specifications I must look for when buying one. Can a
>> KVM be set up to also switch sound? I am ignorant as sin about this
>> matter.
>>
>> Martin
>>
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