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

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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

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