> From: Ethan Dicks
>
>
> --- 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)..
>
> 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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