OT: Apple LWPro parallel port?

RTFM ;) The FastPath is the most powerfull of the boxes that I know of, supporting the bridging of a complete localtalk LAN to a ethernet network, with both Appletalk and TCP/IP support among other features. You have to spend some time with the documentation from the FTP site. I haven't done it myself, and it clearly has a bit of a curve to it, so I don't recommend it to the casual user. If you want to support some IIgs Apples, or use the TCP/IP encapsulation, there are few other options. For just a printer something like the AsantePrint or DaynaPrint is a better option. Farallon stuff is also very nice, but does carry a bit of a premium mostly due to the etherwave convience (allows daisychain connection without another hub port). Shiva bought Kinetics, Intel bought Shiva, but many support files still exist at ftp://ftp.shiva.com/distrib/older/ Personally I recommend downloading EVERYTHING, read some of the support docs, then look around the Intel site for anything else you can find related. Anybody know some good network books that include setting up the FastPath or other router type boxes? Much of what seems very hard to me personally I think is just my general lack of network specifics. If you have some network admin experience my guess is that its a lot more of just fill in the boxes, where for me its what the heck is that box. A few things I have learned. The administrator software is a bit fussy about which OS and network software the mac it runs on is using. OS 7.0 I think is too early, or needs something added, and open transport is too new. Once the FastPath is configured though, its a pure network device, ie it doesn't give a rats opinion on what is using the network, everything is just addresses, zones, nodes, etc. so no special software is required on any of the machines on the network EXCEPT for a mac to run the admin on and make changes. When I get it sorted out on my own, I do plan to write up what I learn for a basic configuration.