Firstly, I hardly expected I would be invited to join this group. It was a pleasant surprise indeed.
I'm a management graduate with a distinct/keen technology leaning, appreciation and usage. I've been handling various technologies over a 15 year period ranging from: 1. Mechanical CAD/CAM applications 2. Character screen GUI based mail front end to Pine in 1992 on vt100 terminals. 3. DOS/Windows TCP/IP stacks to connect to Unix systems using NDIS with DOS/Windows frontends and NFS clients. 4. Building WANs and mailing systems. 5. Constructing an ISP network. I was a Unix users (on workstations) in the late 80s as a support person and then till 1992 as a team member in projects - mainly concentrating on feature definition, prioritization, testing and user documentation. I'm not a programmer nor do I think I'm efficient at it like many of those in the group. However, I think I can stretch, exploit and apply components innovatively as a System Integrator. I went back to Linux when I wanted to host and colocate machines in 2000. I learned Linux ground up. In 2001 end, I came across LEAF and out of interest started exploring it. Today, I've built a complete appliance. Areas that I've worked on as of now: 1. VPN using certificates. I've used Chad's documentation and have a modified one for using Marcus Meuller's utility which I think is pretty good. 2. CF, SD and other media for booting - Eric Titl and I have a decently long thread on write protecting experiments on DoM. I blew mine. It is pretty difficult getting DoM out here in India. 3. Traffic Control and bandwidth management using LEAF. I've tried and have been successful in building a transparent bandwidth manager using LEAF. Document sent to Jacques with addendum awaited from Juan Prieto (LinCE). I'm interested in the following areas for usage of LEAF: 1. Redundant network components using vrrpd and keepalived. 2. H323 gateways as IMS is becoming a key application. 3. Mailing gateways. 4. Security - Hogwash, Snort, PortSentry and the likes. 5. Reporting using rrdtool for time series data - kind of data typically collected for bandwidth management, network load, external connects etc. 6. Update feature for packages - part of a larger definition. 7. Making LEAF SNMP manageable. I know it is there but one has to put it together and have another SNMP manager software with the appropriate MIBs etc... I also believe that for adoption of LEAF in a larger measure, good configuration tools, reporting tools and web interfaces are the key - evident from my posts. I run a system integration company in Chennai, India, have become a vociferous Open Source Evangelist over the last 3 years since I started using Linux and believe strongly in the benefits Open Source can bring to all concerned. I also consult in this area with the primary focus being: Do what commercial products can or better at half the price. Thus adding value to customers and make money. I'm also deeply into security having been hacked myself 4 times. Apart from LEAF, I'm an active member of 5 other forums of interest. I'm targetting the LEAF appliance at customers tending to go in for CISCO/ Packeteer/ Checkpoint/ Nokia etc. I'm 40 and live in Chennai, India. I'd be happy to play host to any member visiting India. Mohan ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
