Driven-Monkey

So this year I am enrolled in what will (hopefully) be my last year of university. I’m doing a postgrad diploma this year in computer science, after graduating with my BSc in computer science last year. As part of my postgrad diploma, I have to undertaken a 6 month dissertation paper. For my dissertation I am attempting to implement the MPLS networking protocol into the FreeBSD operating system. I have to admit, its pretty scary. I havent done anything like this before. The amount that this has taught me so far is pretty incredible though. Through my flat mates I have learnt about setting up and using svn repositories, using virtual machines, and all the stuff I’ve been having to learn about FreeBSD and how to use it and how it works.

So far I have managed to set up my work environment exactly how I want it now, and I have started working on the actual code. That in itself has been another huge learning curve, its been years since I wrote anything in C, and I have never hacked on a kernel before. I haven’t gotten very far in just yet. Right now I’m still working on getting the initialisation of the MPLS type working, then once thats done I’ll start working on the input and output functions, and hopefully get some label switching of packets done in the next couple of months.