From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 14:23:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E611837BE02 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10016; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:24:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000605172150.00adc1c0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:22:29 -0400 To: chip@chocobo.cx From: John Subject: Re: UPS sharing? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000605172053.A92071@setzer.chocobo.cx> References: <4.3.1.2.20000605165107.00ad9910@mail.udel.edu> <4.3.1.2.20000605165107.00ad9910@mail.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Not a 100% FreeBSD question, but it's worth a shot :) I was wondering if > > anybody out there has any experience with taking a single Smart-UPS (in > > particular an APC Smart-UPS 1000 NET) and attempting to split the signal > > between two boxes? In particular I'll be splitting between a FreeBSD and > > Win9x box, but may move it over to hold up two FreeBSD boxen. Is it even > > acceptable to split the signal? > >We have several APC Smart-UPS 1000's here, with several computers >running off of each. We simply plug the machines into the UPS and away >they go. I'm pretty sure the power provided is OS independant, and for >that matter, device independant. > >Of course, you could be talking about something other than the 120VAC >signal.... Actually, yup :) I was talking about the "feed-back" signal via serial cable to provide the shutdown signal to whatever software is being run to perform the shutdown. Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message