From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 15:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.nc.rr.com (fe1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8AB37B9AB for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from rdu25-6-087.nc.rr.com ([24.25.6.87]) by mail1.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:11:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:08:58 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.42f) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <14239375664.20000611180858@nc.rr.com> To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer without a monitor In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Saturday, March 11, 2000, 6:38:14 PM, you wrote: RK> Hi, RK> What I want to accomplish is to have my old Pentium 120 with freebsd RK> 4.0 be the server and route to the internet for my other three RK> computers in the house. RK> I do not want to have a seperate monitor, keyboard and mouse RK> associated with this computer. RK> Any idea's on the best way to accomplish this. RK> I realize that I would have to have these things attached to set it RK> up, but after that I just want the server to run without the monitor RK> attached. RK> I guess the problem happens when i need to do maintenence. RK> Thanks RK> Rick Hello Rick, I would recommend either a KVM switch (maybe one from Belkin), or you can set it up as a serial console if you must have a Microsoft machine, as I do. http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sercon.html from http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message