From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 16:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E9C37B5C9 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.138]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:43:48 -0700 Message-ID: <394423E1.F4AE1A4B@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:42:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer without a monitor References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Knebel wrote: > > Hi, > > What I want to accomplish is to have my old Pentium 120 with freebsd > 4.0 be the server and route to the internet for my other three > computers in the house. > I do not want to have a seperate monitor, keyboard and mouse > associated with this computer. > > Any idea's on the best way to accomplish this. > > I realize that I would have to have these things attached to set it > up, but after that I just want the server to run without the monitor > attached. I used a kvm switch to get around this problem. Some switches are brain_dead when it comes to the 3rd button. The mouse needs to be the same type on all of the computers hooked to the switch, i.e., no ps/2 on one and a serial mouse on the other. > > I guess the problem happens when i need to do maintenence. You don't have problems with the switch but I gather it is hard to debug the kernel from a serial line. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message