[kwlug-disc] Supermicro board (was: Synology, and proprietary disk formats ...)

[Cedric Puddy]

The AST2400 is a pretty standard remote control thing, that's integrated under various names into various servers.

It's designed to be useful for remotely changing BIOS settings or logging in on the GUI console of a server that might not have it's own TCP/IP stack up.  Relative to native remote screen solutions that are running under the host OS and have knowledge of the internals of what's happening with the graphics, etc, the latency/performance of things like the AST2400 tend to be relatively terrible.  But you don't care about that when it's the difference between being able to save the day from your desk VS having to drive somewhere or talk some random person through a complex series of steps over the phone... :)

	-Cedric

On 2014-08-06, at 1:33 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 11:51:42PM -0400, L.D. Paniak wrote:
>> My personal favourite:
>> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182819
> 
> That Supermicro board has AST2400 video which is supported by Linux (so
> they say).  In actual use, how is it?  Can you play videos?
> -- 
> William
> 
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