[82518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there a "alternative" way of doing kvm-over-IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Wed Jul 20 17:09:54 2005
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:07:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1916C774@BIGLOG.thenap.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
