I had 8 boxes, 2 keyboards, 1 monitor.  That's what
ssh is for.

George


Victor Odhner wrote:
> 
> alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> > My suggestion is to avoid the entire issue and
> > setup a 486 without a hard drive running a
> > floppy distro as a firewall/NAT box.
> 
> Thanks, Alan.
> 
> Two boxes will have to be my limit.
> 
> The problem is that I don't have the time or
> the space to set up and maintain YET another
> box, another keyboard, another monitor ...
> I'm a programmer, not a sysadmin.
> 
> And I have zero budget for added toys:
> a three-way KVM switch, with cables, would
> cost me $150 or so as far as I can determine.
> 
> My Debian box is a Pentium 166, so
> it would not be a bad candidate as
> my front end, but then I'd risk losing
> my network connection any time I was
> tinkering with the Debian box.
> The Windows box is static (I doubt I'll
> ever move beyond Win98), so it should
> be a good portal if that will work.
> 
> You can spend your life on this kind
> of thing and never get around to
> developing software ...
> 
> Vic
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