From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 21:49:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D108C106564A for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986958FC14 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m7RLnLKb011916 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.2/Submit) id m7RLnIns011915; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Erik Trulsson Message-ID: <20080827214918.GE26653@dan.emsphone.com> References: <402691.90978.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080827205935.GA85941@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080827205935.GA85941@owl.midgard.homeip.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: help help , Mark Busby Subject: Re: OT:KVM Switch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:49:22 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 27), Erik Trulsson said: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:02:41PM -0700, Mark Busby wrote: > > Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with > > linux. Has anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to > > waste time and money, even with the option of resale on eslay.  > > Thanks for your time. > > All KVM-switches I have encountered so far do not really interact at > all with the OS, and therefore will work equally well with any OS. I > see no reason to expect that KVM switch to be any different. Watch out for KVMs that use the scroll-lock key to switch computers, though. That makes using scrollback history on the console a pain. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com