Roshin Roy

I got new toy to play with – a Cobalt Qube3. If you are wondering what a Qube3 is, it’s a Network appliance that was designed by Cobalt Networks in the late 90s. Later, Cobalt Networks was acquired by Sun Microsystems and they did some redesigning on this appliance.

The Qube3 that I got is an older generation Sun appliance running some sort of Sun-Cobalt Linux. The Qube has no ports for keyboard, mouse or monitor. It just has 2 Ethernet ports (one for clean and one for dirty, if you want to use it as a firewall), a connection for power, and a small LCD with a few buttons which allows you to carry out some simple administrative tasks, like resetting the web interface, configuring the network or gracefully shutting down the box.