phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne) (09/26/90)
Archive-name: fastpath-manager/25-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne) Original-subject: Re: AppleTalk Phase 2 and FastPath Manager II? Archive-site: shiva.com [192.80.57.1] Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <MacMS.18471.25089.morgan@jessica.stanford.edu> (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes: Subject: AppleTalk Phase 2 and FastPath Manager II? The nice folks at Shiva technical support told me that there's a new version of the FastPath Manager that fixes the problem. They're mailing it to me on disk. I thanked them and told them how pleasant it would be to have such things distributed over the net. The Manager RL "Bob" refers to is 5.1.4 it is available for anonymous ftp from Shiva.COM and by request from Shiva Tech Support. I hope to have it available on AppleLink soon. To recoup, FastPath Manager runs on EtherTalk Phase 2 Macs. % ls -l ~ftp/dist/FastPath/Manager/5.1.4 total 793 -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 212604 Sep 4 18:15 5.1.4.hqx -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 133981 Sep 4 18:16 5.1.4.hqx.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 109952 Aug 13 18:00 Archive.sit.Bin -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 161671 Sep 4 18:17 Archive.sit.hqx -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 131721 Aug 13 17:53 Archive.sit.hqx.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 340 Sep 24 22:12 README I have also started an archive of interesting and useful files in ~ftp/dist/unsupported; brahma% ls -l ~ftp/dist/unsupported/ total 249 -rw-rw-r-- 1 phil 79 Aug 29 15:58 00README -rw-rw-r-- 1 phil 9846 Aug 27 18:19 AA_Protocol.txt drwxrwxr-x 2 phil 512 Aug 30 18:25 FP3-prom/ drwxrwsr-x 4 phil 512 Sep 21 19:14 KIP/ drwxrwxr-x 2 phil 512 Aug 30 18:29 Kboot/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 phil 86 Aug 29 16:03 Notes drwxrwsr-x 4 phil 512 Aug 30 18:30 SNMP/ drwxrwsr-x 4 phil 512 Sep 4 12:03 bootp/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 phil 222142 Aug 29 16:02 netnews-reader.hqx RL Bob's article was followed up by ones from Mike Gerard, Ben Schmidt, Peter K. Haase, and David Gutierrez who related their experiences with mail to tech@Shiva.COM. While I cannot speak for Tech Support, it now appears that they check their Internet mail at least once daily. If you do not get a responce in a reasonable period please contact me. An introduction; I came to Shiva to be the software manager and lead engineer for the FastPath, K-Star and future TCP/IP product development. My previous job was at Boston University where I was a Sr Programmer in the Distributed Systems Group for 5 years maintaining, adapting and developing systems and networking software for Un*x and TOPS-20 (some of you may remember me as the author of the aufs/lwsrv printer access control modifications to CAP). I have been a FastPath user since 1986. I have not spoken up before now because (as you can well imagine) I have had more than enough to keep me busy without addressing issues raised on the 'net, never mind raising ones of my own! Shiva has recently hired a Marketing Product Manager for the FastPath and I am presently hiring several engineers. We are investigating several h/w upgrades for the FP-4 as well as a replacement for the current hardware. Shiva is involved in the IETF in several areas. In short, we are intent on maintaining and developing the FastPath as well creating new networking TCP/IP and Un*x related networking products. I have set up an address "fastpath@Shiva.COM" for your comments and feature requests. -Phil ............o Philip Budne . o---+----o Shiva Corporation . o | 1 Cambridge Center Internet: phil@Shiva.COM . Shiva | Cambridge, Ma 02142 . | Tel (617) 864-8500 (formerly budd@bu-it.bu.edu) . o---o Fax (617) 252-6852