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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: InterNetShare, Inc. David J. Preston Vice President & General Manager 408-735-9800 ext. 107 dpreston@internetshare.com LF Communications Len Fernandes 510-538-8916 lencom@earthlink.net Lineo To Offer InterNetShare’s AER Software With Lineo SecureEdge VPN Hardware Solution Provides Advanced Multimedia Services, Secure VPN, and IPv4 to IPv6 Transition See InterNetShare at N + I, Booth 8701 SUNNYVALE, CA (May 7, 2001) – InterNetShare, Inc., an Internet connectivity provider, today announced a marketing agreement with Lineo™, Inc. The agreement makes InterNetShare’s All Aboard! Advanced Edge Router (AER) software available as an option on Lineo SecureEdge™ Virtual Private Network (VPN) hardware. The All Aboard! AER software will provide Lineo customers with the first VPN software solution to incorporate a built-in IPv4 to IPv6 transition environment, coupled with encryption, secure VPN and multimedia services. Once installed, users do not have to worry about transitioning network devices to IPv6. AER automatically configures new devices for IPv6 to preserve a customer’s initial investment in IPv4 devices and add new devices with no interoperability issues. The user sees transparent connectivity, no matter where the resource is on the Internet or a VPN. “The flexibility of the Lineo SecureEdge router platform for broadband and narrowband interfaces combined with the adaptability and transparent connectivity of the InterNetShare AER software will allow OEM developers to quickly configure a SecureEdge VPN Router for a number of applications,” said David Preston, InterNetShare vice president & general manager. “The combined solutions that Lineo and InterNetShare are providing through the SecureEdge development platform will make a compelling Internet hardware and software solution for our OEM partners,” said Miles Gillham, senior product marketing manager, Lineo, Inc. “For customers looking for IPv6 support with the backward compatibility for IPv4, the combined Lineo and InterNetShare product will provide the perfect solution.” The combination of Lineo hardware and InterNetShare embedded software creates a solid environment for applications such as VPN router; E-commerce accelerator; high-grade firewall; Audio/video content relay; SOHO access appliance with e-mail, usenet, and anti-virus; remote monitoring and physical security control device, or gaming portals, according to InterNetShare. InterNetShare packages and distributes its AER software as portable source code for OEMs that want to embed the technology into access point, gateway and edge-node devices. The AER source code is available for Linux, embedded Linux or other popular embedded operating systems, or as a complete hardware/software device for ISPs and corporate networks. Source code is licensed at $75,000 royalty-free, and the packaged solution has a quantity one list price of $2,995. AER is fully compliant with all Internet standards. About InterNetShare InterNetShare (www.InterNetShare.com) was founded in 1999 with a single mission: make Internet communications simple. With hundreds of thousands of systems already sharing Internet connections using the company’s award-winning All Aboard! family of products, InterNetShare delivers unmatched performance, features and ease of use. InterNetShare licenses it’s products through direct web sales, OEMs and Resellers/Integrators worldwide. About Lineo, Inc. Lineo, Inc. provides Linux-based embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions that include software, hardware reference designs and professional services. Lineo's solutions allow OEMs to create devices and systems that interact with the Internet while helping OEMs to reduce system requirements, per-unit costs and time-to-market. The company's key product lines include: Embedix™ (embedded Linux system software), uClinux™ (embedded Linux for MMU-less processors), SecureEdge™ (Linux-based Internet appliance platform for VPNs, Internet routers, network attached storage and firewalls), RTXC™ (general purpose and DSP real-time operating system), BeaconSuite™ (x86 development toolkit) and Availix™ (mission-critical high availability Linux cluster solutions). Contact Lineo at www.lineo.com, via e-mail to info@lineo.com or by calling (801) 426-5001. Lineo and SecureEdge are trademarks of Lineo, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark owned by Linus Torvalds. All other products, services, companies and publications are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.