[kbenson]

> Except… these are a bunch of tiny PCs on a high shelf in my utility room. Selecting the boot order is a _project_.

Every once in a while I look for a cheap remote KVM I can use as a crappy IPMI stand in, either with RJ45 or WiFi. I haven't looked in a year or so, but at the time the options I found all seemed far more costly than I would have hoped (the pi based ones seemed interesting but once you add the requirements together it wasn't cheap enough to be attractive to me for a home use). Server class equipment with built-in IPMI is quite a bit more expensive. I just want something affordable to put in front of a NUC to make dealing with it easier in some instances. You could stick some refurbished old KVM device in front of it to support multiple systems on that one KVM as long as they were in close proximity.

Seems like you could benefit from that as well (but in your case you might get a workable solution out of switch config though).