[ale] KVM or alternative

[kilpatms at mindspring.com (Sean Kilpatrick)]

On Friday 14 February 2003 12:27 am, cfowler wrote:
> This is mainly due to keyboard emulation issues.  If you have 4 machines
> and the power goes off you may have problems booting back up.  The main
> reason is the fact that even those devices support emulation, they can
> not service more than say 2 systems at a time with that emulation.  So
> if all 4 machines look for keyboard at once then the Belkin may have
> issues servicing them at once.

This is easily solved by setting the BIOS on the machines so that they
stay OFF following power loss. Let them boot one at a time.  It's a
lot less expensive than a high-end KVM. <grin>


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