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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:46:40 +0200
From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Linux Advanced Routing & Trafic Control Mailing List

For immediate release:

2000-10-23, Delft, The Netherlands

The Linux Advanced Routing & Trafic Control HOWTO team announces the
creation of a mailing list dedicated to discussion of the topic of their
HOWTO. Bert Hubert, the original author of the HOWTO, states 'We were
flooded by email with questions on how to deploy Linux in advanced routing
projects. We want our efforts to mean something to the world, and as we are
strong believers in the open source community, we decided to create a
mailing list'.

On this list, Linux users help each other and share ideas about how to
configure their Unix variant to do amazing things, like bounded link
sharing, load balancing across links, transparent proxying, firewalling, and
policy based routing.

The team notes that Linux appears to be the main routing platform of the
non-Western world. More than half the subscribers of the mailing list so far
are from Africa, the Far and Middle East and South America. 

'The high price of for example Cisco gear, compared to the cheap labor
available, make Linux a natural choice for these countries', says Bert. This
does not mean however that Linux is useful only for low-end applications.
For example, the Routing & Shaping algorithms employed are among the most
scalable in the world.

To find out more, see http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing where you can also find
information on how to subscribe to the mailing list.

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