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sharath udupa <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Quartz
System name: quartz
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

This project is aimed at developing a comprehensive platform to provide routing 
functionality along with easy and effective QoS management services.
This can be realised as an appliance or as software distro. As an appliance 
this would be a black box with can be plugged to the existing network 
infrastructure. This box behaves as a router along with providing QoS 
management services. Since this would be a black box, managing the box would be 
through a web interface which provides the administrator some freedom in 
choosing the location from where s/he would want to configure the device. 
This could also be realised as a software distro, i.e., we provide a cd 
packaged with the system(OS+platform) which when installed on a PC would 
provide the complete services.

The first task on hand is integrating the several parts already available in 
linux needed to realise this platform. I would like to list a few of them (this 
by no way is a complete list) -
*Linux kernel 2.4 - This should provide all the networking services needed,i.e, 
TCP/IP stack, QoS service (necessary options are chosen when compiling the 
kernel),etc.
*Routing services - We could use existing applications such as Zebra or 
linuxrouter.
*QoS services
*APIs for using the kernel provided services.
*Web based interface - this will the interface used by the administrator to 
configure the platform


It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.