Blackbox setup - Keyboard and Mouse

[Subba Rao <subba9 () home com>]

I am setting up a regular Intel PC as blackbox running snort. If this
proves successful then our folks may buy a rack mounted blackbox.

For now, everything is setup perfectly (hopefully). The box is on the
network with restricted access and snorting the network traffic. It is also
setup to startup with Snort running at boot up (in case of power failure).
The only issue for now is the need to have keyboard and mouse to be
attached to the box. If these devices are missing the system is throwing
a BIOS message upon reboot. I suppose I could disable these devices in the
BIOS to bypass this error message. Are there any OS (Linux/OpenBSD) related
issues, if the keyboard or mouse is missing? Most blackbox systems do not
have these devices anyway.

I would like to hear any experiences or advice with setting up a blackbox
without keyboard and mouse.

TIA.
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Subba Rao
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