Proteon P4200 and Suminet 3500H/FDDI - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jun 2001

On Jun 9, 10:13, Brian Hechinger wrote:
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  On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:50:58AM +0000, Pete
Turnbull wrote: 
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  it's got DAS FDDI on the system board, a Dual AUI
ethernet card and a
 token-ring card.  each card has a set of status lights (couple leds in a row
...
  numbered starting from 0) and the DB-25 on the system
board. 
Well, you've obviously worked out what the ports are, and I doubt I can add
anything to that.

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   for the serial
port, I'd expect it is indeed a console line, and you've
 just got the wrong baud rate.  Or it's Japanese! 
 well, hmmmmm.  i've tried a handful of rates/settings and haven't come up
with
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  much, tried straight through and roll-over, nothing
works for me.  if it's in
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  japanese i have no idea what to expect output to look
like on a non japanese
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  terminal (if i added japanese support to solaris would
tip be able to take
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  advantage of that??)  i can plug the thing in and show
you the garbage i get
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  at 9600 8n1 if you'd like. 
No, sounds like you've started where I would have.  I'd have guessed most
likely speed as 9600, 19200, and 1200.  If you get garbage, you probably
have the Rx/Tx round the right way, and I expect you've tried the comon
speeds.  I doubt if tip has Japanese support and it probably wouldn't help
anyway.

I wonder if it's worth snooping on either of the Ethernet ports?  I wonder
if it tries to bootp when it starts up?  That might provide a way in.

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  On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:50:58AM +0000, Pete
Turnbull wrote: 
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  > I still haven't quite got my own FDDI up and
running, partly due to a
 > faulty SAS card in one of my SGIs.  If anyone has any surplus FDDI boards
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  > for SGI kit, especially GIO DAS, or any surplus
*small* bridges or routers,
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   I'd be
interested to hear from you... 
 nope, don't have any of that, sorry.  finally got my FDDI ring into a sane
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  state.  DAS backbone ring with all the network
equipment hanging off of that.
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  all the sun boxes (that can support it anyway) have
SAS FDDI cards and hook
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  into a 3Com FDDI Hub. 
Sounds pretty cool.  All I have is a Netbuilder with a DAS card set (and
some AUIs and 10baseFL), and two SAS cards for my Indys.  Hard to build a
proper ring with SAS :-(

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  -brian (who has too many machine, most of them LARGE)

Pete has, too :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York