Tom Eastep

Tom on the PCT - 1991

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 the The New HP) 1980 - present
Married 1969 - no children.

I am currently a member of the design team for the next-generation operating system from the NonStop Enterprise Division of HP.

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, Windows XP Pro, 320MB RAM, 40GB & 8GB IDE HDs and LNE100TX (Tulip) NIC - My personal Windows system. This system also has RH7.3 installed.
PII/266, RH7.3, 320MB RAM, 20GB HD, LNE100TX(Tulip) NIC - My personal GNU/Linux System which runs Samba configured as a WINS server.
K6-2/350, RH7.3, 256MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD, EEPRO100 NIC - Mail (Postfix & Courier-IMAP), HTTP (Apache), FTP (Pure_ftpd), DNS server (Bind).
PII/233, RH7.3 with 2.4.19 kernel, 128MB MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD - 3 LNE100TX (Tulip) and 1 TLAN NICs - Firewall running Shorewall 1.3.4 and a DHCP server. Also 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.

For more about our network see my Shorewall Configuration.

The PII/266 is made by Dell. All of our other systems are made by Compaq (part of the new HP).. All of our Tulip NICs are Netgear FA310TXs.

Last updated 8/10/2002 - Tom Eastep