Intel Netport Express XL - can I use it?

[Stefan K Berg]

A computer dealer in the neighbourhood went belly-up a while ago, and
today I was at the auction where they did away with the remaining
inventory for next to nothing.

I found a printer server, namely the Intel Netport Express XL. Since I
don't have a parallel interface in my SPARCstation at home, it seemed
like the perfect choice for me - 10-BaseT in, two parallel (and one
serial?) ports out. Luckily, they knew next to nothing about this thing,
so I got it practically for free! :-)

I made a 10Base-T crossover cable and hooked up the thing to my Sun. Lo
and behold - it happily started spewing out Ethernet frames!

16:59:03.227766 0:aa:0:ac:9a:65 Broadcast 8137 60:
ffff 0022 0004 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff
0452 0000 0000 00aa 00ac 9a65 6002 0003
0004 0a1e 8051 238c 0962 bc25 0000

The question is: Does anyone know if I can make it talk to my
SPARCstation running Solaris 2.5 in any way? It doesn't seem to be
fluent in TCP/IP, as far as I can tell. :-)

I didn't get any manual or any kind of software for the thing, so it
might run a proprietary PC protocol of some sorts, and I'm out of luck.
It would be real neat if I could put it to some use, though.

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