--- David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> 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). I think, in the
end, we couldn't make changes because we couldn't get around the
missing password, and shipping the box back to the vendor was not an
option because the next plane wasn't for 3 months.
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.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Jun 26 2002 - 14:20:55 BST