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07-29-2006

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Master's degree proposal, Router software

Hello everyone,

After 8 years of being out of school I am trying to start my Masters degree. This specific type of degree is being done only by research (research mode vs. coursework mode). I need to prepare a research proposal and send it to the school. I will need a professor to accept me as a research student.

- I want to end my masters in 1.5 years (at most 2 years)

- I have something arround 1 years of experience in unix programming (BSD Sockets , etc) and very extensive database, J2EE, PHP and .NET experience.

- I am CCNA certified and have done switching and routing courses

With above background I had prepared below proposal:

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A: Study and development of a routing platform (OS) using PC hardware

In this project, a routing operating system based on Intel (or a RISC platform) PCs and hardware will be developed which is able to support a few routing protocols (example: static, rip) on simple interfaces (i.e serial or ethernet).
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Though after a days of searching and thinking I found that it is a very big project. I will need to develop a very stable operating system (memory management, processes, filesystem, ...) and a routing software on top of it and also a user shell.

So I am changing mymind to a smaller project:

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A: Study and development of a routing platform (OS) on top of a unix type operating system

In this project, a routing software on top of a stable unix type OS will be developed which is able to support a few routing protocols (example: static, rip) on ethernet interfaces. Platform will include a user shell. Entire software will be placed on a flash disk to form an appliance.
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Though I will look at already developed software like zebra, I should develop a completely new software.

Now

I need some advice from people here.

1- Is this proposal reasonable?

2- Is it possible to cover all the things in just 1.5 years ?

3- Are you able to suggest me a better research proposal?

4- Any other advice is appereciated.

Regards,
Mac

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nrbroadcast

NRBROADCAST(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						    NRBROADCAST(5)

NAME

       nrbroadcast - NET/ROM routing broadcast configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

       Nrbroadcast  is	an ASCII file that contains information about each of the physical AX.25 ports that are to have NET/ROM routing broadcasts
       transmitted from them.

       Each line has the following format, each field being delimited by white space:

	      port minobs defqual worstqual verbose

       The field descriptions are:

	      port	    the port name of the AX.25 port to broadcast on.

	      minobs	    this is the minimum obsolescence count of a routing table entry to be broadcast on this port.

	      defqual	    this is the default quality of an incoming routing broadcast from an unknown neighbour.

	      worstqual     this is the worst quality node received from a routing broadcast that will be added to our routing table.

	      verbose	    whether the routes to all of my nodes in my routing table, or just the nodes resident on my machine are to	be  broad-
			    cast.

FILES

       /etc/ax25/nrbroadcast
       /etc/ax25/axports

SEE ALSO

       call(1), netrom(4), axports(5), netromd(8), nrparms(8).

Linux								   2 August 1996						    NRBROADCAST(5)