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. # # # -- PowerDNS Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet