Asante ASANTE MacCon Family Ethernet Network Cards for the Macintosh - Manual

ii Accessing Asanté MacAgent MIB 3-2Asanté SNMP MacAgent and the TCP/IP Protocol 3-2Asanté SNMP MacAgent as a Network Diagnostic Tool 3-3 Installing SNMP MacAgent 3-3Configuring MacTCP 3-4Configuring SNMP MacAgent 3-5 Asanté SNMP Configuration Parameters 3-6 AsantéView Network Management Station 3-7...

iii List of Figures Figure 2-1 Selecting AUI, MacCon NuBus card 2-3 Figure 2-2 Disabling Link Integrity, MacCon-i NuBus card 2-4 Figure 2-3 Installing a MacCon 3 NuBus card 2-5 Figure 2-4 Installing MacCon NuBus card, Apple Centris 610 2-6 Figure 2-5 Selecting the AUI port, MacCon 610 card 2-7 Figur...

Chapter 2 1-1 Chapter 1 Introducing the Asanté MacCon Cards Thank you for purchasing a MacCon network interface card from Asanté Technologies. Asanté’s MacCon cards enable you to connect any Macintosh with an available expansion slot to a high speed Ether-net network. The MacCon Family consists of t...

1-2 Introducing the Asanté MacCon Cards The term MacCon cards is used in this manual to refer to all cards in the MacCon Family. When text applies only to a specific card, it is identified by its name. Summary of MacCon Card Features Asanté MacCon cards offer the following features: ❏ Support for al...

Chapter 2 2-1 Chapter 2 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for installing Asanté MacCon Ethernet network interface cards and EtherTalk software. To install an Asanté MacCon Ethernet card, you will perform the fol-lowing operations: ❏ Prepare for the instal...

2-2 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards ❏ The appropriate Asanté card and Ethernet hardware for your cabling: Refer to Appendix B for detailed Ethernet specifications. Observing the Safety Rules Do not remove the network interface card from its anti-static bag until you are ready to insert it into the ex...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-3 ❏ Ground yourself by using an anti-static wrist strap. Attach it to the chassis once you have opened the Macintosh, but before handling the Asanté card or touching any component inside the system. ❏ Handle the Asanté card by the edges and avoid touching the connect...

2-4 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards MacCon-i NuBus Card ∆ Note: If you wish to disable link integrity, use the JP1 jumper on the MacCon NuBus card, as shown in Figure 2-2. (For example, hubs made before the 10BaseT specifica-tions were published do not support link integrity.) Figure 2-2 Disabling Li...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-5 Figure 2-3 Installing a MacCon 3 NuBus card — Gently press on the card until the connector is fully seat- ed and the card is flush with the card holders at both ends. With a Centris 610 If you are installing a MacCon NuBus card in an Apple Centris 610, you need to ...

2-6 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Figure 2-4 Installing MacCon NuBus card, Apple Centris 610 Installing the MacCon 610 Card If you have a Macintosh Centris 610, you can use a MacCon 610 card to connect to the Ethernet. Each card consists of two parts: ❏ The larger controller card, which plugs into ...

2-8 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 3 Power down the Macintosh. Disconnect and remove the power cable. 4 Open the Macintosh and remove the access port cover. 5 Make sure you are grounded: check that your anti-static wrist strap is properly attached to your wrist and to the Macintosh chassis. 6 Plug t...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-9 Installing a MacCon LC Card If you have a Macintosh LC, LCII, or Color Classic computer, use the MacCon LCIII or MacCon-i LC card to connect the Macintosh to the Ethernet. Caution Only the LC and LCII computers can accept FPUs on the LC card. If your Macintosh alre...

2-10 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards With the card’s components facing down, carefully angle its external connector through the Ethernet port, then line up its edge connector with the motherboard expansion slot. 5 Gently press on the card until the connector is fully seated (see Figure 2-9). Figure 2...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-11 2 Remove the rear access panel case (see Figure 2-10). Figure 2-10 The rear panel removed on the Color Classic 3 Make sure you are grounded: check that your anti-static wrist strap is properly attached to your wrist and to the Macintosh chassis. 4 Slide out the mo...

2-12 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards With the connectors facing down, carefully angle its external con-nector through the Ethernet port (see Figure 2-11). Figure 2-11 Installing the MacCon LC in the expansion slot in the Color Classic 6 Plug the card’s edge connector into the expansion slot on the mo...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-13 Installing the MacCon3 IIsi and MacCon 30i Cards If you have a Macintosh IIsi or a Macintosh SE/30, use a MacCon3 IIsi or a MacCon+ 30i to connect to the Ethernet. (The cards are not designed for a Macintosh SE.) Each card consists of two parts: ❏ The larger contr...

2-14 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Video Options Even though the Macintosh IIsi has only one expansion slot, you can install both a MacCon3 IIsi card and the Radius video card. An exter-nal interface device is not needed and high performance is main-tained. The following table shows which MacCon ca...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-15 Installing the Math Co-processor If your Macintosh, or the Radius card, already has a math co-proces-sor, do not install the Asanté math co-processor option. It will cause the Macintosh to fail at start up. The following sections, starting on the next page, descri...

2-16 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Installing in a Macintosh IIsi To install the MacCon+ 30 or a MacCon3 IIsi in a Macintosh IIsi, per-form the following steps: Caution Be ver y careful when you open the case and work inside the Mac-intosh IIsi. Refer to your Macintosh User’s Guide for an illustrat...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-17 Figure 2-13 Removing the MacCon3 IIsi daughter card Figure 2-14 Installing a MacCon3 IIsi card with a Radius card MacCon3 IIsi daughter card AUI part removed force AUION Motherboard Expansion slot

2-18 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Installing a MacCon3 IIsi and a Radius Pivot IIsi To install a MacCon3 IIsi card and a Radius Pivot IIsi card, perform the first three steps on page 2-17, then perform the steps below. Caution Handle the Asanté cards and the video cards carefully so they remain pl...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-19 Figure 2-15 Installing a MacCon+ 30i card in a Macintosh SE/30 Installing a MacCon Card in a Macintosh SE/30 Caution Be ver y careful when you open the case and work inside the Mac-intosh SE/30. If you are unfamiliar with opening the machine, consult

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-21 Installing a MacCon+ SE Card in a Macintosh SE The MacCon+ SE network interface card allows you to connect a Macintosh SE to an Ethernet network. The card consists of two parts. ❏ The larger controller card, which plugs into the expansion slot in the Macintosh. ❏ ...

2-22 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards To install the MacCon+ SE card in the Macintosh SE, perform the fol-lowing steps: Figure 2-16 Installing the MacCon SE daughter controller card and daughter card Caution Be ver y careful opening and working inside the Macintosh SE. 1 Power down the Macintosh. Disc...

2-24 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 9 Place the motherboard (with the MacCon+ controller card riding piggyback on it) back into the guides on the left side of the chassis. 10 Reconnect the power supply and the disk drive cable on the component side of the motherboard. 11 Plug the ribbon cable into t...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-25 1 Connect the “T” connector to the BNC port on the card. The connector slips on, twists, and locks in place. 2 If the Macintosh is the last node, terminate one end of the “T” connector using a 50-ohm BNC terminator (for thin ca-ble). With thick Ethernet cabling 1 ...

2-26 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards The following table explains which installation to choose: About EtherTalk Phase 1 and Phase 2 EtherTalk Phase1 is limited to 255 devices and allows only one zone. EtherTalk Phase 2 has virtually no limit (maximum—over 16 million devices) and allows multiple zones...

2-28 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Accessing Network Services To make the connection between your Macintosh and the Ethernet network work, you need the following: ❏ AppleTalk must be active in the Chooser dialog box ❏ EtherTalk must be active in the Control Panel Asanté EtherTalk driver software en...

Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-29 Your connection to Ethernet remains active until you switch to LocalTalk, disconnect the cable, or remove the Asanté interface card. 4 Select Chooser from the Apple menu. The Chooser dialog box displays the icons for all available device options and the AppleTalk ...

Chapter 2 3-1 Chapter 3 Asanté SNMP MacAgent Introduction Asanté SNMP MacAgent provides hardware and software information from a Macintosh to an Asanté network management station running AsantéView. It works in conjunction with Apple’s MacTCP software. The SNMP MacAgent is a system extension under S...

3-2 Asanté SNMP MacAgent Requirements The requirements for Asanté SNMP Agent are AsantéView In-Band Network Management Software AsantéView is powerful network management software used to man-age Asanté intelligent Ethernet hubs and bridges. It allows network managers to monitor Ethernet networks usi...

Asanté SNMP MacAgent 3-3 SNMP MacAgent forwards four types of information about the station: ❏ Station Profile, including station hardware components, sys-tem and memory ❏ Station Slot Table, identifying the network interface cards installed ❏ Station Activity, transmission statistics for the networ...

3-4 Asanté SNMP MacAgent 4 Click Customize . The Customize Install dialog box appears, shown in Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1 Customize Install dialog box 5 Select the SNMP MacAgent for the appropriate operat-ing system. 6 Select MacTCP for the appropriate operating system. 7 Click Install . 8 Restart. Con...

Asanté SNMP MacAgent 3-5 2 Double-click the MacTCP icon. The MacTCP Configura- tion screen appears, shown in Figure 3-2. Figure 3-2 MacTCP Configuration screen ❖ Note: To configure MacTCP, see the MacTCP Adminis-trator’s Guide. This guide is included with the Asanté-View documentation. 3 Double-clic...

3-6 Asanté SNMP MacAgent 2 Double-click the SNMP MacAgent control panel. The SNMP MacAgent Configuration screen appears, shown in Figure 3-3. Figure 3-3 Asanté SNMP MacAgent Configuration screen 3 Enter the configuration parameters (see the next section for parameter descriptions). 4 Restart. Asanté...

Asanté SNMP MacAgent 3-7 ∆ Note: The defaults for Read-community and Write-commu-nity should be used unless you are told otherwise by your network administrator. Trap-community Enter public. (Trap is the SNMP term for alarm or alert.) Public is usually the default for the SNMP configuration. However...

3-8 Asanté SNMP MacAgent A Macintosh icon displayed on the map with an “A” indicates the Asanté SNMP MacAgent is installed. If a Macintosh has Asanté’s SNMP MacAgent installed, the Asanté net-work management station running AsantéView can display the follow-ing information: ❏ General Information (se...

Chapter 2 4-1 Chapter 4 Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software The TroubleShooter and Asanté Driver Local Statistic (ADLS) programs are included with the EtherTalk drivers on the Asanté EtherTalk Installer diskette. The TroubleShooter program runs diagnostic tests on the MacCon adapter to...

4-2 Running TroubleShooter Diagnostics 4 Restart the Macintosh. Starting TroubleShooter Diagnostics 1 Insert the EtherTalk Installer diskette and open the dis-kette’s director y window. 2 Copy the TroubleShooter software to the desktop or a folder, such as the Net Utils folder. 3 Double-click the Tr...

Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software 4-3 • Memor y Buffer Test Writes to and reads from the packet buffer RAM to ver-ify its addressability and operation. • Network Interface Controller Test Writes to and reads from the controller register to ver-ify its operation. Also issues a transmi...

4-4 Running other TroubleShooter tests Running the Loopback test The Loopback test verifies the operation of the major components of the interface circuitry and the cable run to the hub by transmitting and receiving special packets. ❖ Note: The Macintosh with the MacCon adapter installed must be con...

Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software 4-5 The performance statistics are displayed in the Trouble-Shooter dialog box. Figure 4-3 Bandwidth Utilization Test window What the Bandwidth Utilization test displays The Bandwidth Utilization test takes a “snap shot” of the network. The test can ...

4-6 Running other TroubleShooter tests • CRC Error Indicates the number of packets with CRC (Cyclic Redun-dancy Check) errors received from the network by the adapter. When a packet is transmitted, a mathematical cal-culation is done on the header and data and is appended to the end of the frame. Th...

Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software 4-7 If the test fails repeatedly, make a note of the error message, quit the TroubleShooter diagnostics, and call Technical Support. Quitting TroubleShooter and restarting network services To quit TroubleShooter, click the QUIT button in the TroubleS...

4-8 Running ADLS To start the ADLS program, double-click its icon. Figure 4-4 shows an example of the screen that appears. Figure 4-4 Asanté Driver Local Statistic (ADLS) table When the program opens, it automatically begins gathering statistics. The screen displays the current time and the elapsed ...

Chapter 2 5-1 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting This chapter addresses a few problems you may encounter when installing or using an Asanté MacCon network interface card. If you are unable to solve a problem after reading this chapter, please call Asanté Tech Support for assistance at 800-622-7464 or 408-435...

5-2 Troubleshooting To learn the latest version number: ❏ Call 800-622-7464 and press 4 for Technical Support ❏ Then press 1 for Software Update information You will obtain the current version number as well as instructions for downloading Asanté Ethernet drivers from Applelink or InterNet. If you p...

Troubleshooting 5-3 Questions and Answers to Common Problems Q The AppleTalk zones are not in the Chooser and I can’t connect to my remote file server. What’s wrong? A ❏ AppleTalk may not be active in the Chooser. ❏ EtherTalk may not be selected in the Network control panel. ❏ The Asanté EtherTalk d...

Chapter 2 A-1 Appendix A 2 3 2 Technical Specifications MacCon Specifications The specifications for the Asanté MacCon cards are given below. Systems supported Macintosh SE, SE/30, IIsi, LC family, Color Classic, Quadra, MacII (NuBus) family, Centris, and Per-forma computers with an available expans...

A-2 Technical Specifications Ethernet Address Each Asanté card has a 6 byte Ethernet physical address beginning with 00.00.94. In Figure A-1, an arrow points to the location of the Ethernet address on each card. You can also learn the Ethernet address using the Get Adapter Infor-mation option from t...

Technical Specifications A-3 MacCon LEDs The LEDs for the MacCon NuBus, LC, IIsi, and SE cards are described below. Ethernet Specifications The table below lists the Ethernet specifications. LED State Yellow Green ON N/A Link Integrity enabled, Twisted pair cabling used, link detectedLink Integrity ...

A-4 Technical Specifications You may find the following tips useful. ❏ 10BaseT The wiring normally called for in 10BaseT is 26 to 22 AWG, which corresponds to the wire gauge of telephone twisted-pair cables. You need two pairs of wiring for each node. Before you think seriously about using your exis...

Technical Specifications A-5 Asanté FriendlyNet cards and Apple computers and printers with built-in Ethernet do not directly connect to the Ethernet cable; instead, an external transceiver, like the Asanté FriendlyNet Media adapter, is used. This approach lets you change network media by only chang...

A-6 Technical Specifications Figure B-1 AUI connector pin number assignments RJ-45 Connector The RJ-45 connector’s pin numbers listed below are for an Asanté 10BaseT card positioned correctly with the notch on the 8 pin mod-ular jack oriented down. Pin 1 is the left-most pin, and Pin 8 is the right-...