Tom Eastep

Tom on the PCT - 1991

Tom on the Pacific Crest Trail north of Stevens Pass, Washington  -- Sept 1991.
Photo by Ken Mazawa

bulletBorn 1945 in Washington State .
bulletBA Mathematics from Washington State University 1967
bulletMA Mathematics from University of Washington 1969
bulletBurroughs Corporation (now Unisys ) 1969 - 1980
bulletTandem Computers, Incorporated (now part of Compaq Computer Corporation ) 1980 - present
bulletMarried 1969 - no children.

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

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:

bullet1.2Gz Athlon, Windows XP Pro, 320MB RAM, 40GB & 8GB IDE HDs and LNE100TX (Tulip) NIC - My personal Windows system. This system also has RH7.2 installed.
bulletPII/266, RH7.2, 320MB RAM, 20GB HD, LNE100TX(Tulip) NIC - My personal Linux System which runs Samba configured as a WINS server.
bulletK6-2/350, RH7.2 with 2.4.18 kernel, 320MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD, EEPRO100 NIC  - Mail (Postfix & Courier-IMAP), HTTP (Apache), FTP (Pure_ftpd), DNS server (Bind).
bulletPII/233, RH7.2 with 2.4.18 kernel, 128MB MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD - 3 LNE100TX  (Tulip) NICs  - Firewall running Shorewall 1.2.11a and a DHCP server.  Also runs pptp-linux-1.0.3-1 to implement a tunnel to my employer, and runs PoPToP for road warrior access.
bulletDuron 750, Win ME, 192MB RAM, 20GB HD, RTL8139 NIC - My wife's personal system.
bulletPII/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 . All of our Tulip NICs are Netgear FA310TXs.

Last updated 4/18/2002 - Tom Eastep

Copyright İ 2001, 2002 Thomas M. Eastep.