Re: usb hub as kvm switch

2013-02-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-02-09, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: I have two nodes side by side. KVM switches for just usb are almost imposible to find in my area. I plan to use usb keyboard and usb mouse only, since my mo- nitor has two adapters for both boxen. Is it possible to use plain usb hub to do the

Re: usb hub as kvm switch

2013-02-09 Thread Zoran Kolic
I don't see how a plain hub could possibly work as a KVM switch, unless I am missing something. A workaround you may consider would be a PS/2 KVM switch where the KVM switch's PS/2 exit cables go into PS/2-USB adapters. (Or are those adapters just as rare in your area?) Those two nodes would

Re: usb hub as kvm switch

2013-02-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-02-09, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: So, my probably stupid idea was to have 4 adapter hub, to put usb kb and usb mouse into 2 front ones and the rest adap- ters to use to connect usb cable from adapter to usb on the computer. No switching, as I see it. This can't be done with a

usb hub as kvm switch

2013-02-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
I have two nodes side by side. KVM switches for just usb are almost imposible to find in my area. I plan to use usb keyboard and usb mouse only, since my mo- nitor has two adapters for both boxen. Is it possible to use plain usb hub to do the job? One of the nodes would be openbsd 5.2 amd64. Best

Re: usb hub as kvm switch

2013-02-08 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 05:54 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: I have two nodes side by side. KVM switches for just usb are almost imposible to find in my area. I plan to use usb keyboard and usb mouse only, since my mo- nitor has two adapters for both boxen. Is it possible to use plain usb hub to do