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Freedom9 freeView IP 100 IP KVM Switch Review

Tue, 04/24/2007 - 5:37pm — jhgoodwin

Box Contents

Inside the box the contents are rather well packed. The main unit sits between a sandwich of foam.

You may notice that there is no printed manual the manual exists only in electronic form on the CD.

Package contents include Freedom9 freeView 100, 5V 2.5A powerbrick, 6' 9pin serial (null modem) cable, 6' Cat5e patch cable, 3' host-KVM straight-through cables, 8.5" wide rackmount bracket, screws, 6' USB cable.

Host connection side has the power, USB, 15pin VGA, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, and pinhole factory reset button.

Close observation of the KVM switch shows that there is not only a connection for the host computer but also the console which means that you will not sacrifice your keyboard monitor and mouse access if you need access at the actual machine using the standard method.

The console connection side has 10/100 network connection, 9pin serial connection, 15pin VGA, PS/2 keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.

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Wed, 05/30/2007 - 1:43pm — Anonymous (not verified)

on page 9, what does usb

on page 9, what does usb boot have to do with the kvm? what usb device was detected?
Mon, 09/07/2009 - 10:13pm — jhgoodwin

USB Boot using KVM

After noticing my comment queue had lots of spam, I looked back and saw your comment! Well, years late, I'd just like to say USB boot is for the KVM to be able to boot up the computer using a remote CD drive. Basically using the remote KVM software, you can mount an ISO image as though it was local to the device. This allows you to remotely reload the OS, or boot a rescue CD. I hope this makes sense. John