Tom Eastep

Tarry & Tom -- August 2002

• 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 & 20GB IDE HDs and LNE100TX (Tulip) NIC - My personal Windows system. Serves as a PPTP server for Road Warrior access. Dual boots Mandrake 9.0.
• Celeron 1.4Gz, RH8.0, 384MB RAM, 60GB HD, LNE100TX(Tulip) NIC - My personal Linux System which runs Samba configured as a WINS server. This system also has VMware installed and can run both Debian Woody and SuSE 8.1 in virtual machines.
• K6-2/350, RH8.0, 384MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD, EEPRO100 NIC  - Email (Postfix, Courier-IMAP and Mailman), HTTP (Apache), FTP (Pure_ftpd), DNS server (Bind 9).
• PII/233, RH8.0, Kernel 2.4.20, 256MB MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD - 3 LNE100TX  (Tulip) and 1 TLAN NICs  - Firewall running Shorewall 1.4.0 and a DHCP server.
• Duron 750, Win ME, 192MB RAM, 20GB HD, RTL8139 NIC - My wife's personal system.
• PII/400 Laptop, WinXP SP1, 224MB RAM, 12GB HD, onboard EEPRO100 and EEPRO100 in expansion base and LinkSys WAC11 - My main work system.

All of our other systems are made by Compaq (part of the new HP).. All of our Tulip NICs are Netgear FA310TXs.

Last updated 2/23/2003 - Tom Eastep