Re: Is there a "alternative" way of doing kvm-over-IP

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Drew Weaver wrote:

Buying the hardware boxes sounds pretty attractive, but I wondered if any industrious open sourcers have come up with anything that any NANOG-ers have come across that would do something similar to what the Dell 2161DS box would do. I realize we would need a server with some cards in it to terminate the connections and then some cards to go in the boxes, we just need a bit more density than 16 ports. There is an open-sores project to design KVM-over-IP, at http://okvm.sourceforge.net/kvmoverip.html

However, all you want is Dell 2161DS PEM (port extender module, equivalent of avocent ARI). With PEM, you can attach 8 devices to each of the 16 ports of the 2161DS, total 128 ports per 2161DS. -alex