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        Conception & Development by Denis Corbin

        http://dar.linux.free.fr/
        dar.linux@free.fr

I will not answer support requests sent by email: your questions and their
answers may be interesting to others. For all and to all, if you need support
thanks to read  http://dar.linux.free.fr/#help to know how to proceed.

        else for non support requests, you
        need to add "[EARTH IS BEAUTIFUL]" in the subject
        of your emails, to pass anti-spam filter.

Chris Martin is the author of dar-help a little program that builds
*.usage files from *.xml files. dar-help is used to simplify the maintenance
of help string returned to user when the -h option is given.


An extract of Denis Corbin's resume:
        1970      my parents did a big mistake. ;-)
        1989      BAC C (mention AB)
        1990-1992 Classes Prepa
        1992-1995 ENSEIRB - Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Electronique
                            Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux
                  Promo 1995.
        1995      3 months Erasmus project in Bologna (Italy).
        1996      Military Service 28e Regiment Transmission Armee de Terre
                  Formation Equipex-RITA, operator on the RITTER network.
        1997-2000 Software developer, Team leader, Project leader for
                  Netcomsystems (today Spirent Communications). Designed
                  softwares for the Smartbits network test equipment. Worked
                  in cooperation with Californian team, have spent few weeks in
                  Los Angeles.
        2000-2002 Network Design, architecture and network support for DCN
                  of Alcatel Submarine Networks, (worked mainly in France,
                  and spend several weeks in USA, Chile and Brazil).
        2002-2003 DNS maintainer and Firewall admin for Bouygues Telecom
                  operator's GPRS network.
       since 2003 Network Design and support for SFR's wap and SMS platform,
                  Internet ISP connectivity.

        Good knowledge of
              L1 protocols (bit encoding like Differential Manchester, etc.).
              L2 protocols (Ethernet, Token Ring, frame format, detail behavior
                       and structure of switch and hub equipments. ATM, FR,
                       protocols, E1 and E3 WAN links).
              L3 protocols (IP, OSI, OSPF, RIP, ISIS, ESIS, BGP, HSRP, VRRP...)
              L4 protocols (UDP, TCP).
              QoS (CBQ, TBF, RED, etc.)
              DNS configuration and administrative interfaces to network
              databases,
              Firewalls admin (Checkpoint, Netscreen, Linux iptables),
              RIPE administrative interface,
              Alteon Load Balancers.

        Knowledge of
             SDH networks, Submarine Equipment systems and TMN-OS,
             GSM and GPRS network structure, SS7 and radio protocol.

        Practice of the following equipments:
             Cisco switches and routers (3550 SMI/EMI, 7200, 3600, 1700, 2500)
             Checkpoint Firewalls 4.1 and NG
             Alteon L4-L7 load balancer
             Netscreen Firewalls
             SunOS/Solaris network and hardware administration (less practice
                 for system admin.)
             Linux OS (in particular as router/firewall system).


       spoken languages: French, English, Italian, Russian.
       extra professional activities: astronomy, photography, occasional
       chess player. Author and maintainer or Disk ARchive (but this, you know)

