[rescue] Watchguard Firebox II

[Dan Sikorski]

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 22:25, Steve Hatle wrote:
> Dan- no problem, I often find myself talking to myself also :-)
> 
> I was able to dig up the software, and right at the end of the day the
> license key that you apparently need to go with it.

Good deal.
 
> The software and key was brought to me by a guy who said the thing was
> "broken"  in a won't boot/run sense as opposed to it just being a sucky
> firewall. So next week I'll find out what if anything is truly wrong, and
> then evaluate the general suckyness.  .  .

broken/pain in the ass/overall piece of crap/whatever....
 
> Coincidentally, I decided to open it up and take a look inside since I
> didn't think I had much to lose. There is a proprietary motherboard in there
> (well, it's got Watchguard silkscreening on it) with a heatsinked Socket7
> CPU, two DIMM slots with one populated, two PCI looking slots that don't
> have any outlet to the outside of the box, and the two slot PCMCIA cage.

Yeah, i think at least some of 'em have 200mhz pentiums, but i know they
had 300mhz models, probably amd.
 
> There is flash memory on there as well, but I'm not geeky enough to be able
> to tell you what the rest of the stuff is on there besides the three
> ethernet interfaces.

Was it a PCMCIA flash card? or something else?
 
> I wanted to check it out because I was intrigued by the LILO prompt that
> appeared on the serial console when I tried that. I would assume that a more
> general purpose *nux could be run on one of these things, but wouldn't know
> where to start trying to get it going.

Well, the first thing would be to find out what chipset the ethernet
interfaces use, that's probably the biggest thing to worry about.  My
guess would be an intel chipset.

Did it have an IDE or floppy interface?  

What i'd like to do with one is whip together a setup with netBSD
booting from the flash, then loading itself into a ramdrive. But that's
just me....

	-Dan Sikorski