Gatorbox (was RE: APPLEVISION Monitor) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Jun 2002

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  From: 	Ethan Dicks

 --- David Woyciesjes &lt;DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu&gt; wrote:
  	Or, if you can find a Cayman GatorBox GX-R,
which provides a
 LocalTalk-Ethernet bridge, DECnet routing, UNIX-LocalTalk printing, and
 UNIX based files services...  
 I'd been meaning to bring up GatorBoxen since I saw pallets of them
 at the Dayton ComputerFest last August.  ISTR they were in the $10-$20
 range.

 My only experience was with one (not sure about the model) at Scott Base.
 It was fine until they wanted to change some networking parameter but
 did not have the passwords (the technician who installed it had been
 gone for years, and he probably gave the passwords to the Station
 Manager who had been gone just as long, I'd wager)..

 So... I had contemplated picking up one of the boxes I saw at Dayton,
 but was concerned about passwords.  Does anyone on the list have a
 GatorBox?  If so, what models?  Docs?  Know of any backdoors to get
 around missing passwords?

 In the meantime, I'll stick with the $10 PPC Macs I've been getting, and
 when I do occasionally need to fire up a Compact Mac, I do have a
 SCSI<->Ethernet box that works fine.
  -	Well, my GatorStar GX-R is the rackmount version. And I know Chris
has the version that goes into a Cabletron (?) network hub, as a module.
Ever start that up Chris?
	And sounds like my situation. There's admin passwords on mine.
Haven't had a chance to hack them yet. I should try that out soon. Granted,
none of my home network is set up right now...
	You can get software to reflash the firmware, using a Mac on it's
console port. That should eliminate the passwords for you. Cayman, which is
now part of Netopia, used to have their software on the website, but I can't
find it now. Looks like Netopia dumped it. I have the files around here
somewhere.
	As for documentation, I found...
http://opcenter.cso.uiuc.edu/nas//nash/mac/gbox.html

I also found this page just now in the WayBack machine...
http://web.archive.org/web/19970705033723/www.cayman.com/gx.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19970705034344/www.cayman.com/specs.html

	Let me know if you need more assistance.

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