I have the above misbehaving firewall box from work that is made by Secure Computing. The box is about 4 years old and appears to have a scrambled brain. We replaced it with a Netgear, but I wanted to revive this thing to use at home (or to play around with). It is running some sort of embedded Linux and has an Intel IXP425 ARM system on chip. The web interface no longer comes up and the network ports all blink endlessly no matter what. Something is still working, because I get a redboot prompt and request for zImage when I hook up a serial cable and reset the device using a pen. I was thinking about putting something like DD-WRT or another small Linux firewall distro on there. Here's an interesting thread about that: <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68772&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0">http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68772&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0</a>. <br>
<br>The trouble is I can't get the source to compile properly using the instructions from Snapgear<br><a href="http://www.snapgear.org/documentation2.html">http://www.snapgear.org/documentation2.html</a>. Apparently, our particular unit has a cryptographic chip that requires special Intel cryptographic files which is part of their IXP400 Access Library. Compiling just for the IXP425 SOC from the config files doesn't get me anywhere, still getting errors about missing files. I registered on Intel's website to get access to the library but it's been quite a while now. Does anybody happen to know about this library and where to get it besides Intel? The info file from the source mentioned using a BSD-type library, but I get an error about missing crypto acc something. Something tells me Intel can't be the only ones with the actual library.<br>
<br>It's too bad Snapgear went through a long line of companies before being bought over by McAfee. Getting help from those guys for a box that is out of warranty is next to impossible.<br>