KVM Switch

[David Vos]

Actually the problem is a little worse.  Every time you plug a PS/2
keyboard into a motherboard, you have a chance of ruining the
motherboard.  With good, digital KVM's they simulate a constant connection
so that the computer never realizes the keyboard's been unplugged.

We're using the Belkin OmniView PRO 16-Port that was recommended
earlier, and it has been working pretty well for us.

David

On Mon, 21 May 2001 alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com wrote:

> 
> hi ...
> 
> it depends on the motherboard and the PS/2 mouse...
> some mouse wont hang the motherboard when the mouse is unplugged...
> from whatw we've seen...
> 	unplugging can also be switching between mb with KVMs
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> http://www.Linux-1U.net
> 
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> 
> > We/ve been using the Belkin switch in our operations, both for my
> > cluster and for a lot of other departmental stacks of PCs.  They seem to
> > be just about bulletproof, but are certainly not the cheapeest ones out
> > there.
> 
> they seem to be less suspceptible
> 
> > > 
> > > Yes, I found this out the hard way.  Abit VP6 hangs if you unplug/plug
> > > PS/2 mouse.
> > 
> 
> 
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