<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
 
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
  <title>About the Shorewall Author</title>
  
  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
 
  <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
 
   
  <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none">
</head>
  <body>


  
      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1" bgcolor="#400169" height="90">
        <tr>
          <td width="100%">
          <h1 align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">Tom Eastep</font></h1>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
  
      
  
      <p align="Center">
      <img border="3" src="images/Hiking1.jpg" alt="Tom on the PCT - 1991" width="374" height="365"></p>
  
      
  
      <p align="Center">Tom on the Pacific Crest Trail north of Stevens Pass,
      Washington&nbsp; -- Sept
      1991.<br>
      <font size="2">Photo
      by Ken Mazawa</font></p>
  
      
  <ul>
    <li>Born 1945 in <a href="http://www.experiencewashington.com">Washington 
State</a>
.</li>
    <li>BA Mathematics from <a href="http://www.wsu.edu">Washington State 
University</a>
 1967</li>
    <li>MA Mathematics from <a href="http://www.washington.edu">University
of Washington</a> 1969</li>
    <li>Burroughs Corporation (now <a href="http://www.unisys.com">Unisys</a>
) 1969 - 1980</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.tandem.com">Tandem Computers, Incorporated</a>
 (now part of the <a href="http://www.hp.com">The New HP</a>) 1980 - present</li>
    <li>Married 1969 - no children.</li>
  </ul>
 
      <p>I am currently a member of the design team for the next-generation
      operating system from the NonStop Enterprise Division of HP. </p>
 
      <p>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 <a href="http://seawall.sourceforge.net"> Seattle
      Firewall</a>. Expanding on what I learned from Seattle Firewall, I then
      designed and wrote Shorewall. </p>
 
      <p>I telework from our home in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cityofshoreline.com">Shoreline, 
Washington</a>
 where I live with my wife Tarry. </p>
 
      <p>Our current home network consists of: </p>
 
  <ul>
    <li>1.2Gz Athlon, Windows XP Pro, 320MB RAM, 40GB &amp; 8GB IDE HDs and LNE100TX 
    (Tulip) NIC - My personal Windows system.</li>
    <li>Celeron 1.4Gz, RH7.3, 384MB RAM, 60GB HD, LNE100TX(Tulip) NIC - My 
    personal Linux System which runs Samba configured as a WINS server. This 
    system also has <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware</a> installed and 
    can run both <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> and
    <a href="http://www.suse.com">SuSE</a> in virtual machines.</li>
    <li>K6-2/350, RH7.3, 384MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD, EEPRO100 NIC�
- Mail (Postfix &amp; Courier-IMAP), HTTP (Apache), FTP (Pure_ftpd), DNS server 
    (Bind).</li>
    <li>PII/233, RH7.3 with 2.4.20-pre2 kernel, 256MB MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD - 3 
    LNE100TX&nbsp; (Tulip) and 1 TLAN NICs&nbsp; - Firewall running Shorewall 1.3.6 and a DHCP  
  server. �Also  runs PoPToP for     road warrior access.</li>
    <li>Duron 750, Win ME, 192MB RAM, 20GB HD, RTL8139 NIC - My wife's     personal system.</li>
    <li>PII/400 Laptop, Win2k SP2, 224MB RAM, 12GB HD, onboard EEPRO100 and     EEPRO100
in expansion base and LinkSys WAC11 - My main work system.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>For more about our network see <a href="myfiles.htm">my Shorewall
  Configuration</a>.</p>
 
      <p>All of our 
      other systems are made by <a href="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</a> (part 
      of the new <a href="http://www.hp.com/">HP</a>).. All of our Tulip NICs are <a href="http://www.netgear.com">Netgear</a>
      FA310TXs.</p>
 
      
 <p><a href="http://www.redhat.com"><img border="0" src="images/poweredby.png" width="88" height="31"></a><a href="http://www.compaq.com"><img border="0" src="images/poweredbycompaqlog0.gif" hspace="3" width="83" height="25"></a><a href="http://www.pureftpd.org"><img border="0" src="images/pure.jpg" width="88" height="31"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.apache.org"><img border="0" src="images/apache_pb1.gif" hspace="2" width="170" height="20"></a>
 </font></p>

      
      <p><font size="2">Last updated 8/16/2002 - </font><font size="2">
      <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
 </p>
  <font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">Copyright</font> 
  � <font size="2">2001, 2002 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a></font></body></html>