Software & docs for Shiva Fastpath 4 box

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Fri Sep 13 09:40:01 2002

>And here are the serial connections from page A-4 of "Inside Appletalk"
>Second Edition:
>
>Wire Sig MiniDIN-8 DE-9
>-------------------------------------
>Red TxD- pin 3 pin 5
>Blu RxD- pin 5 pin 9
>
>Wht RxD+ pin 8 pin 8
>Grn TxD+ pin 6 pin 4
>
>GND Case Shield Shield

Progress report: I made the adapter and turned on the shiva fastpath.
After a few seconds, all of the machines connected to phonenet
flashed a message: "Your appletalk network is now available".
Not that they could not see each other before; but now, the
fastpath box seems to have "zoned" the appletalk network;
the Appletalk control panel in all machines now has different
info in the "current-zone" field, the "Network" field and
the "Network Range" field. Wow. Talk about self-configuration.

The "network" application in the Powermac 8100 shows the named
appletalk zone under a tab, containing all of the machines currently turned
on. There is another tab, named "etalk" (probably by the previous
owner of the fastpath box); I guess that's the ethertalk side
of the network. I haven't connected that side to the enet hub yet;
I need to do some reconfiguration first. But things look good.

Carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 09:40:01 BST