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        Original Design & Development: Denis Corbin

        Several patches are from Wesley Leggette, Dave Vasilevsky,
            Nick Alcock, Brian May, Martin Jost, Jurgen Menden, Todd Vierling
            Omer Enbar, David Rose, Alex Kohlmeyer, Dietrich Rothe,
	    Moritz Franosch, John Little, Chris Martin, Michael Roitzsch,
            Andrea Palazzi, Dwayne C. Litzenberger, Sonni Norlov, David Fries.

        Translations of program messages are from:
	    Peter Landgren for Swedish
            Markus Kamp for German
            Denis Corbin for French

        http://dar.linux.free.fr/   (main site)
        http://dar.sourceforge.net/ (mirror site)
        dar.linux@free.fr

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An extract of Denis Corbin's resume:
        1970      my parents did a big mistake. ;-)
        1989      BAC C (mention AB)
        1990-1992 Classes Prepas
        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.
                  Preparation Militaire PMTE.
        1997-2000 Software developer, Team leader, Project leader for
                  Netcomsystems (today Spirent Communications). Designed
                  software for the Smartbits network test equipment. Worked
                  in cooperation with Californian team, has 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 spent several weeks in USA, Chile and Brazil).
        2002-2003 DNS maintainer and Firewall admin for the GPRS network of
                  Bouygues Telecom (small french mobile operator).
        2003-2004 Network Design and support for SFR's wap and SMS platform,
                  Internet ISP connectivity.
	Nov. 2003 Cisco Certified: CCNA
        2004-2005 Validation responsible of the hosting infrastructure
                  that provides data to UMTS mobile phones for SFR.
	Dec. 2004 Cisco Certified: CCNP
        July 2005 Network and security engineer for Telindus France.
        july 2008 Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE R&S)

        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, T1, T3 and E3 WAN links).
              L3 protocols (IPv4, IPv6, OSI, OSPF, RIP, ISIS, ESIS, BGP, HSRP,
              VRRP, DECNET, IPX, IGMP, PIM, ICMP, MLD, ...)
              L4 protocols (UDP, TCP).
              QoS (CBQ, TBF, RED, WRED, etc.)
              DNS configuration and administrative interfaces to network
              databases (like the RIPE).
              Firewall admin (Checkpoint, Netscreen, Linux iptables),
              Alteon Load Balancers,
	      BlueCoat proxy equipments.

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

	Good practice of the following equipments:
             Cisco switches and routers (3550 SMI/EMI, 3750, 7200, 3600, 1700,
             2500, 4500, 6500, 2500, 2960)
             Checkpoint Firewalls 4.1, NG and AI,
             Alteon L4-L7 load balancers
             Netscreen Firewalls (today Juniper's)
             SunOS/Solaris network and hardware administration (less practice
                 for system admin.)
             Linux OS (software developement, system admin, and its very rich
             network features).
             Cisco ACS (Radius/Tacacs+ server)

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