Blast from the Past (Netgate)

chpalmer

I work for a company that has probably one of the largest private networks in the world.. We tend to find stuff on the shelves in our shop that have never been deployed for whatever reason..

Found this today while making room for some upcoming projects.. Saved it from the e-waste bin so I could get some photos.. ;)

Documentation in the bag says 2004.

flat4

@chpalmer found one ebay going for $20

johnpoz

@chpalmer funny that has a 7100 model and the name netgate on it.. From the few minutes of googling I didn't find any sort of correlation with the current netgate company.

My understanding was Rubicon Communications, LLC was founded in 2004, ie netgate and they first stuff they shipped had m0n0wall on them.. This cyberguard is a different company from the few minutes I spent looking..

But it is funny that its a "netgate 7100"

Bob.Dig

Somehow the photo looks old too.

chpalmer

@Bob-Dig said in Blast from the Past (Netgate):

Somehow the photo looks old too.

Kyocera POS camera.. ;)

chpalmer

@johnpoz said in Blast from the Past (Netgate):

@chpalmer funny that has a 7100 model and the name netgate on it.. From the few minutes of googling I didn't find any sort of correlation with the current netgate company.

My understanding was Rubicon Communications, LLC was founded in 2004, ie netgate and they first stuff they shipped had m0n0wall on them.. This cyberguard is a different company from the few minutes I spent looking..

But it is funny that its a "netgate 7100"

It would be fun to know if there is any previous history that crossed over.. I may get bored this weekend and might just have to pop it open to see what makes it tick. When I originally found it I had hoped it was a newer box that I could use in the lab.. but alas..

provels

Isn't it just an ATT gateway product, with the model name "Netgate 7100"? Just a coincidence I think.

Jah... But crack it open anyway, I'm sure the warranty's expired! Might work for home, might be Intel.

JonathanLee

@chpalmer It's got the db9 port, I remember when laptops stopped having a serial com port but all the Cisco routers we worked on still needed them for terminal access, so we all had USB adapters. Fun times with hyper terminal. Shortly after Microsoft did away with hyper term. Putty took over as the go-to for our company. We had null adapters also for HP equipment they wanted to be different.

At&t Riverbed also had something that looked similar to that with a Linux os on it 2008ish

jwt

AT&T was infringing on the Netgate trademark (which I'd had since 1993 or so).

We came to a settlement agreement in 2006, but they violated that and we ended up filing suit in federal court in 2011.

That lawsuit settled in 2012, just about the time of the BSDP acquisition. Among other things, AT&T had to transfer their "Netgate" trademark to us, and to stop selling and marketing devices with our trademark.

The similar model numbers (4100, 5100, 6100, 7100, 8200) are intentional, because search engines.

The AT&T units use a MIPS SOC and run linux.

JonathanLee

We were supporting AT&T Riverbed networking equipment that ran Linux in Chicago for healthcare offices when H1N1 was really bad, they supported remote access for doctors. I wonder if it was the same equipment, it looked the same and even had that same yellow “secure” label on them. H1N1 was the worst bug I have ever had in my life, highest fever I have ever had, knocked me down. Everyone was very scared of it. I eventually got it from doing support calls and my own doctor’s office told me “please leave sir there is nothing we can do for you. Please put this mask on leave our office and go home we can’t see you.” I had an appointment too.

chpalmer

@jwt said in Blast from the Past (Netgate):

AT&T was infringing on the Netgate trademark (which I'd had since 1993 or so).

I am going to write in big letters "Fraudulent Device" with a permanent marker as I throw it in the E-waste bin at work..

Assholes!

Oh well.. I thought I might have a little piece of history.. just didn't know it was the wrong side of it.

jwt

@chpalmer still history. ¯_(ツ)_/¯