Sean's Blog

RSA hasn’t gotten a whole lot of great publicity in the past year, and rightfully so. However, the old SecurID appliances (the ones with LCDs on the front panel) are pretty nice and recyclable systems. I’m specifically referring to the ones where RSA sourced the boxes from Celestix. They’re pretty much standard x86-based servers that don’t consume a whole lot of power, and can run any OS you want without much trouble.

We replaced our RSA boxes at work earlier this year, and we were getting ready to throw two of the old ones away. So naturally, I adopted them and brought them home. One of them has already replaced an ancient Gateway (366 MHz Celeron) box, and the other (with 4 NICs on-board) is poised to replace my little ALIX firewall (hardware-wise, it’s very much like the step between an ASA 5505 and a 5520).

If only the driver/controller software for the front-panel LCD were available (source code or otherwise), I’d have them saying “PC LOAD LETTER” in no time.