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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:13:10 -0800
To: Steve Willoughby <steve@alchemy.com>, Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
From: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
Subject: Re: Console Switchboxes
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I'm using the exact same switches and they work perfectly...once I had to
call tech support and it was similar to your problem...have you tried
Belkin tech support? After all it is a commercial product...


At 06:58 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Steve Willoughby wrote:
>On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote:
>> Get yourself a nice non-mechanical switchbox. You'll end up doing so in the
>> future when the cheap one becomes unusable.
>
>Definately.  But I'm having this problem even then.  I have a pair of 
>nice non-mechanical switchboxes which do all the keyboard-spoofing to
>all hosts and all that (i.e., if a machine boots, it "sees" a keyboard
>even if it's not the one switched to the actual keyboard).
>
>This one (Belkin OmniView) is cascadable so that you can put up to 64
>systems on a single console, like this:
>               _______
>[monitor]-----|       | 
>[keyboard]----|_______|
>               | | | |      _______
>       [cpu1]__| | | |_____|       |
>       [cpu2]____| |       |_______|
>       [cpu3]______|        | | | |
>       [cpu4]_______________| | | |
>       [cpu5]_________________| | |
>       [cpu6]___________________| |
>       [cpu7]_____________________|
>
>but it's not behaving like the manual claims it should either.  I get
>the same "keyboard loss" problem when switching to any of the CPUs on
>the 2nd-tier switchbox.  I have to power-cycle the 1st-tier box to get 
>them back.  So nothing's a perfect solution, it seems :)
>
>I guess that's a long winded way to say "Yes, I agree", but you never
>know if someone else out there has seen the same issues with the same
>hardware.
>
>-Steve
>
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