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\markright{Appendix B: About the Speaker and his projects}
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\begin{document}
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\date{}
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\title{About hmw-consulting}
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\author{Harald Welte}
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\section{About Mr. Harald Welte}
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Harald Welte is an independent software developer and
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consultant\footnote{http://www.hmw-consulting.com/} in the fields of operating
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system development and network security, as well as high-performance data
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communications and embedded computing.
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Starting with 1992, Mr. Welte has been participating in the BBS community,
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gathering operational experience with German and International message-based
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offline communications networks, such as the FIDO Network and Z-Netz.
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In 1994, at a time where only the academic community in Germany had access to
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the Internet, he's been pioneering the effort of bringing Internet connectivity
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to individuals as part of a non-for-profit effort\footnote{Kommunikationsnetz
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Franken e.V. (http://www.franken.de/)}. He gathererd first-hand experience of
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early ISP\footnote{Internet Service Provider} operations. Due to the almost
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non-existant commercial products for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), he was
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using readily-available Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
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Starting in 1997, Mr. Welte became a full-time consultant for Linux/Unix
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Kernel and Network development.
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His technical involvement with the network stack of the Linux Operating System
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became stronger over time, and starting with 2001 he was appointed the chairman
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of the netfilter/iptables\footnote{http://www.netfilter.org/} project.
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Mr. Welte is a regular speaker at international Linux and network security
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related conferences, presenting at up to 17 such events per year.
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He is serving as a FOSS advisor to Astaro AG\footnote{http://www.astaro.com/},
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providing guidance for the companies' FOSS involvement and contacts.
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His client list includes small and medium sized businesses and Germany,
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international Linux distributors as well as large international vendors of
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networking equipment.
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Furthermore, Mr. Welte is a member of a number of non-for-profit organizations
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related to the Internet, Computer Security, Digital/Civil Rights, such as the
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CCC\footnote{Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de/)},
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FFII\footnote{Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
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(http://www.ffii.org/)}, KNF\footnote{Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V.
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(http://www.franken.de/)}, ISOC.de\footnote{Internet Society German Chapter
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(http://www.isoc.de/)} and Humanistische Union\footnote{Humanistische Union (http://www.humanistische-union.de/)}.
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Mr. Welte is currently living in Berlin, Germany.
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\newpage
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\section{About the netfilter/iptables project}
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netfilter/iptables is a Free Software project providing an enormously large
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toolbox for network security, so-called ``firewalling''. Firewalls act as
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security gateway between an organization-internal network and a public network, such as the Internet.
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netfilter/iptables is probably\footnote{as the software can be copied by
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anyone, there is no way to determine the exact usage number} the mostly-used
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firewall software worldwide.
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Apart from being part of virtually any Linux Installation, there are hundreds
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of commercial vendors offering Firewall Software and/or Hardware Appliances
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based on netfilter/iptables, ranging from consumer-class equipment up to
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enterprise firewalls.
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Companies shipping netfilter/iptables based security gateways include Secunet,
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Novell, Astaro, Smoothwall, Balabit, Siemens, Fujitsu-Siemens, Deutsche
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Telekom, Netgear, Belkin, Cisco/Linksys, Asus.
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One netfilter/iptables based security product\footnote{SecuNet SINA
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(http://www.secunet.de/} has been awarded with classification level {\em NATO SECRET}).
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\section{About hmw-consulting}
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hmw-consulting is Mr. Welte's Berlin (Germany) based Information Technology
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Consulting Business, offering consulting, development and training in the areas
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of
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Networking (Internet, Intranet, Extranet)
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\item Network Security (Firewalls, Proxies, Intrusion Detection, VPN)
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\item Linux Kernel Development (Device Drivers, Networking Protcols)
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\item Embedded Linux (ARM, MIPS, x86, PowerPC)
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\item Industrial Linux Computing (Data Acquisition, Statistical Process Control)
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\end{itemize}
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\end{document}
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