25 Oct
2000
25 Oct
'00
8:45 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ford" <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Mac TCP/IP networking
you
>There was also a slick little series of devices
made by Cayman called the
>GatorBox. They would bridge pretty much any protocol (TCP/IP, Appletalk,
>and even DECnet) over LocalTalk to Ethernet and back.
>
>I don't know how easy they are to track down; I've got a GatorBox CS
>Rack-mount that I was looking forward to playing with, unfortunately it
>appears as if the previously owning institution (a local university) set
a
password on it
that I am not able to remove (apparently Cayman is no
longer assisting people with lockouts as they are in the DSL business
now, and seem rather uninterested in supporting their old product
line).
The Cayman makes the FastPath look plug and play, mostly as you notice the
support really stinks. OTOH I also have a couple Cayman boxes, and I
remember downloading all the files off the cayman ftp at some point. If can accept a big email attachment, email me directly
and I will send it
off
to you.
BTW the key item though is MacTCP encapsulation, which I don't know that
the Cayman does, and the FastPath I am sure of.
Thanks for the offer!
I've actually got the software, already, though. It turns out that Cayman
has it
available on their FTP site for free now, along with the software-unlock
passwords (which are on their web site).
The problem with my particular GatorBox is that the former users of it had
set a password on it which makes it so that I cannot reconfigure the
GatorBox using the GatorConfig (if I remember correctly) utility. It asks
for the password before saving the configuration, which I do not have.
Apparently, Cayman used to have some sort of back-door for getting
back into locked GatorBoxes, but it says on their web site specifically
that they are no longer offering lock-out support for them, which is
kind of a shame, since they are extremely useful boxes.
After noticing that Cayman wasn't too interested in supporting them, I
tried changing the state of almost every jumper on the board of the
GatorBox (the "what do I have to loose" approach), but I still struck
out :)
So, unless anyone out there knows how to subvert the configuration
password on the GatorBox, I think it's going to be of rather dubious
use to me.
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