Subject: Re: Headless server -- how to? Q's
To: Amitai Schlair <amitai.schlair@usa.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/23/1997 20:53:45
> 
> At college next year I want to use my IIci as a headless server. Dorms
> are small, and I already have a 7100 with a 17" monitor... I was
> thinking I could bring just the IIci itself (with Ethernet card and
> NetBSD installed, but no monitor, keyboard, or mouse) to school,
> daisy-chain it to the 7100 with an EtherWave adapter, and administer the
> NetBSD system over a null modem cable from the 7100 via ZTerm or
> PPP&Telnet.

That should work.

> Do EtherWave adapters "just work", or do they require MacOS drivers?
> (meaning they wouldn't work in my config...)

?? You mean the daisy-chaining ethernet connectors? Well, you do have to
have MacOS drivers to use the attached-to mac's ethernet interface, 
but you don't have to have a special driver to use them in daisy chain
mode.

Take care,

Bill