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From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>

There are others. This one appears to be web/java based rather than VNC, though that probably isn't a killer for most people.

I thought I'd seen a little dongle-y model; I'll look around a bit more.

Didn't read far enough; Jussi Peltola posted this downthread: http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/securelinx-spiderduo.html That's the item I wanted, and it's only $200. And Lantronix' support department is arguably the best hardware vendor support organization I have *ever* worked with. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:05:16PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:

Here's one example; cheapest I've seen:

http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/0su51068.html

There are others. This one appears to be web/java based rather than VNC, though that probably isn't a killer for most people.

I thought I'd seen a little dongle-y model; I'll look around a bit more.

Again: http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/securelinx-spiderduo.html only $199. Disclaimer: I'm only a satisfied customer. The SpiderDuo seems to be more or less the same thing as the supermicro IPMI cards, and works well, even though it has the typical hack-ish embedded linux appliance feel to it (i.e. I'd not dare to connect it to the internet at large) The reverse telnet serial does seem to work without mucking the data, which I find very important. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if you can send a BREAK. I'll need to check the next time I'm using it.