<!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 -- 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 <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 & 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 & 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 (Tulip) and 1 TLAN NICs - 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>