Network Hub selection help needed

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Apr 21 14:55:12 2002

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> One other thing ... It's easy to get "wrapped around the axle" with details
> about what works better than what, etc. Fact is ... the purpose of a network
> is to make multiple computers appear to you, the sum of all the end-users,
> since it's YOUR home computing facility, as one useful tool. I've seen more
> than one guy move from three boxes to each of which he could type a command
> and have a response in a couple of seconds, to a networked environment where
> he could sit at one station and accomplish the same thing, but not without a
> minute or two of typing. Some guys see this as an improvement.

  Great minds must think alike. I was rereading the other posts on the
subject and thinking that I omitted any mention of a very critical
component of my network; my KVM.
  I have an old Aten 8-port KVM to which I connect my firewall, my main
desktop box, and usually 2 or 3 study-environment machines, plus
whatever PCs I'm working on at the time. I just wish I could afford one
of the blade-style units, that will connect to PC, Mac, Sun, RS6k, etc,
based on which cards you install in the KVM. Way into 4-figure prices,
though.
  Sometimes immediate console access is the only way to fly.

        Doc

P.S.- More inline with the thread and Dick's comments - I really _like_
        LDAP.
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 14:55:12 BST