Tom Eastep

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.
• 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 VMware installed and can run both Debian and SuSE in virtual machines.
• K6-2/350, RH7.3, 384MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD, EEPRO100 NIC  - Mail (Postfix & Courier-IMAP), HTTP (Apache), FTP (Pure_ftpd), DNS server (Bind).
• PII/233, RH7.3 with 2.4.20-pre6 kernel, 256MB MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD - 3 LNE100TX  (Tulip) and 1 TLAN NICs  - Firewall running Shorewall 1.3.9 (Yep -- I run them before I release them) 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 and LinkSys WAC11 - My main work system.

For more about our network see my Shorewall Configuration.

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

Last updated 9/19/2002 - Tom Eastep