OK..
So I'm confused.

I've just been checking out some KVM-over-IP switches... And I have no idea how they work.... Lets just say... A PC connects its ethernet to the KVM switch, and that switch connects to a router.

How the hell does that give me a KVM image on a java applet?

Or the other way...
I've seen 'one port' KVM ones. Where its got an ethernet female, which branches into a keyboard, mouse and vga... I'm assuming you would get a port on a switch, into that lil thing, and plug it into your PC. But also the PC would have its other ethernet, direct to the switch?

That would mean that lil box where you plug in the ethernet from the switch, will have to have some webserver software etc on it.

I'm confused,
and very perplexed.

Help?

OK..
I've just been checking out some KVM-over-IP switches... And I have no idea how they work.... Lets just say... A PC connects its ethernet to the KVM switch, and that switch connects to a router.

How the hell does that give me a KVM image on a java applet?

If it only connects Ethernet, it's not a KVM... I've not heard of or seen devices like this.

Or the other way...
I've seen 'one port' KVM ones. Where its got an ethernet female, which branches into a keyboard, mouse and vga... I'm assuming you would get a port on a switch, into that lil thing, and plug it into your PC. But also the PC would have its other ethernet, direct to the switch?

That would mean that lil box where you plug in the ethernet from the switch, will have to have some webserver software etc on it.

Yes, you've got it. The box takes input/out from the PC, video, keyboard, and mouse, and converts them to some network protocol (such as VNC). Both the box and the original PC are connected to a network. A client can then connect to the box transducing these signals, and effectively "see" the output of the PC.

For convenience, most of these boxes also run a mini-webserver hosting a Java VNC viewer applet (or some such), which connects back to the server the box itself is providing.