Tom Eastep

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 Compaq Computer Corporation) 1980 - present

Married 1969 - no children.

In professional life, my current area of specialization is Open File Systems where I am a software designer. I became interested in Internet Security when I established a home office in 1999 and installed a DSL circuit. I investigated ipchains and developed the scripts which are now collectively known as Seattle Firewall. I telecommute from Shoreline, Washington where I live with my wife Tarry.

Our current home network consists of:

• 486/66, RH7 with locally-compiled 2.2.19pre7 kernel, 24MB RAM, 420MB HD, 2 SMC EZNet ISA 10 (NE2K clone) - Firewall
• 486/50, RH7 with locally-compiled 2.2.18 kernel, 32MB RAM, 420MB HD, 3 D-LINK DE220 (NE2K clone) - Test Firewall. 
• 486/66, RH7 with 2.4.2 kernel, 68MB RAM, 8GB IDE HD - D-LINK DE220 - Mail, HTTP, FTP, NFS, DHCP, DNS, Print, Samba Master Browser, WINS server (Try doing that with a Microsoft OS  on this class system).
• K6-2/350, RH7 with 2.4.2 kernel, 128MB RAM, 8GB HD - LinkSys LNE100 - My personal system.
• Duron 750, Win ME, 64MB RAM, 20GB HD, HP NIC - My wife's personal system.
• PII/400 Laptop, Win2k, 128MB RAM, 12GB HD, onboard EEPRO100 and EEPRO100 in convenience base - My main work system.
• 2XPPRO/150, RH7 with 2.4.1-pre11 kernel, 128MB RAM, 2X8GB SCSI HD, EEPRO100 - Backup system belonging to my employer.

With the exception of the SMP PPro system, all are made by Compaq.

Last updated 2/22/2001 - Tom Eastep