K-STAR 9.2 contains the following new features and enhancements:

	* TunnelTalk (Dr. Pepper)- An IP tunneling routing protocol that
encapsulates AppleTalk traffic in IP and exchanges routing information.
TunnelTalk reduces traffic for routing across wide area network connections.
It lets network managers connect AppleTalk Internetworks using FastPaths
through IP networks (that don't support EtherTalk), simply by entering 
the IP address of the other FastPath.
TunnelTalk is a point to point protocol, that is tunnels are created between
2 end points (FastPaths).  Both sides of the connection need to be speaking
TunnelTalk.  You cannot create a tunnel between a FastPath speaking 
TunnelTalk and a Gatorbox speaking Cayman tunnels (although both protocols
can coexist on the same wire).  Shiva is the first vendor to implement
TunnelTalk so at this point in time, both routers at either end of the tunnel 
must be FastPaths.

	* Zone Filtering - Allows network managers to configure which zones
LocalTalk users can access and designate which zones are exported through 
IP Tunnels (TunnelTalk). Zone filtering can be used as a security mechanism
because it limits the propogation of networks and zones via RTMP and ZIP,
and limits the forwarding of certain NBP packets used to discover and use
services.  It can also be used to ease management of sites with large zone
lists by allowing users to see only the zones they need to see.

	* Device Filtering - Enables network managers to configure which
devices are "advertised" through the FastPath's different ports.  Ports
include: EtherTalk Phase 1, EtherTalk Phase 2, IPTalk, IP Tunnel connections,
and LocalTalk.  The wildcard characters equals and approximately equals are
accepted in the Object and Type fields.  Device filtering works by filtering
NBP reply packets passing through a FastPath.

	* SNMP Commmunity Table- Communities are used as a security mechanism
for SNMP.  You can now configure up to six communities with varying access 
capabilities including : No Accesss, Read Only, Clear Stats and Configure.

	* UDP Time Server - You can now configure which time server the
FastPath will gets its timing information from.  In previous versions of
K-star, the FastPath would broadcast its request for this information.

	* Syslogging - You can now configure a syslog host to store
FastPath log information on.  This feature requires syslogd to be running
on the Unix host.  

	* Log Message Filtering - You can filter log messages that get
stored on a syslog host and/or messages that get sent to the log internal
to the FastPath.  Message filtering for internal log messages is based
on priority (which is a value assigned by K-star and not user-configurable).
Internal log filtering allows the user to filter out messages with a
priority of "Info", including network status and adjacency messages.
With syslog filtering, the user can filter out messages with priority of
"Info" and Facility of "INET", "Atalk", or DECNET" from the syslog.  
This will help circumvent the problem of  having the log fill up 
informational messages, such as DECnet adjacency and AppleTalk net up and down.

	* Improved DECnet Management - We now support common NCP commands 
included show node, show line and circuit stats, show exec characteristics
and loop node.

	* A New Documentation Set-  We have rewritten and reorganized the
FastPath manuals into a hardware manual and a very complete adminstrator's
guide.  The guide contains alot of detailed technical info about all of
these new features as well as a rewrite of some of the existing info.

******* K-star 9.2 requires a FastPath with 512K Memory- FP5/5R/4+ *******
	For information on how to upgrade a FastPath 4, please contact
	Shiva sales at 1-800 458 3550, sales@shiva.com, or your
*******	sales rep directly.                                        *******

Please contact support@shiva.com if you have any technical questions concerning
the upgrade.