Tom on the Pacific Crest Trail north of Stevens Pass,
Washington -- Sept
1991.
Photo
by Ken Mazawa
 | Born 1945 in Washington State . |
| BA Mathematics from Washington State University 1967 |
| MA Mathematics from University of Washington 1969 |
| Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys ) 1969 - 1980 |
| Tandem Computers, Incorporated (now part of Compaq Computer Corporation ) 1980 - present |
| Married 1969 - no children. |
I am currently a member of the design team for the next-generation operating system from the NonStop Division of Compaq.
I became interested in Internet Security when I established a home office in 1999 and had DSL service installed in our home. I investigated ipchains and developed the scripts which are now collectively known as Seattle Firewall. Expanding on what I learned from Seattle Firewall, I then designed and wrote Shorewall.
I telework from our home in Shoreline, Washington where I live with my wife Tarry .
Our current home network consists of:
| 1.2Gz Athlon, RH7.2 with 2.4.18 kernel, 320MB RAM, 40GB & 20GB IDE HDs and LNE100TX (Tulip) NIC - My personal system. This system also has Windows XP installed. |
| K6-2/350, RH7.2 with 2.4.18 kernel, 128MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD, EEPRO100 NIC - Mail, HTTP, FTP, DNS server. |
| PII/233, RH7.2 with 2.4.18 kernel, 128MB MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD - 3 LNE100TX (tulip) NICs - Firewall running Shorewall 1.2.6+, Samba WINS and DHCP servers. Also runs pptp-linux-1.0.3-1 to implement a tunnel to my employer, and runs PoPToP for road warrior access. |
| Duron 750, Win ME, 192MB RAM, 20GB HD, RTL8139 NIC - My wife's personal system. |
| PII/400 Laptop, Win2k SP2, 224MB RAM, 12GB HD, onboard EEPRO100 and EEPRO100 in expansion base - My main work system. |
| I also have a 486 system running stock RH7.2 that I use for firewall testing. |
For more about our network see my Shorewall Configuration.
All of our systems are made by Compaq . All of our Tulip NICs are Netgear FA310TXs.
Last updated 2/26/2002 - Tom Eastep