Re: [MirageOS-devel] Mirage project suggestions for another newcomer

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi aaron;

On 5 Sep 2014, at 10:54, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5 Sep 2014, at 01:10, Aaron Quamme <aaron.quamme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for suggestions in the vein of Stephen's project - something 
>> relatively small and non-critical but still useful. I discovered Mirage and 
>> unikernels last week and find topic rather fascinating, so I decided to make 
>> it the focus of my undergraduate research project this semester. I don't 
>> have much experience with OCaml or with functional languages in general, but 
>> I've started on Real World OCaml.
>> 
>> I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions you provide!
> 
> How about a DHCP server implementation? We already have a DHCP client:
> 
> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-tcpip/tree/master/dhcp
> 
> A DHCP server would be handy if we want to do fancy network stuff in future 
> e.g. for some kind of DHCP + NAT + VPN appliance.
> 
> I’m sure other people have other suggestions too!

+1 for dhcp server :)

caveat: i don't know what the usual scope or content of ug projects are at your 
institution, and i haven't thought in detail about scoping the following 
suggestions so they may require far more than is reasonable for a good ug 
project anywhere.

...but other things that i think would be useful at some point would be an ipv6 
stack, a vpn client, nat support, upnp. basically, name a network protocol 
that's not already supported, and an implementation will probably be useful at 
some point to someone :)

a thorough performance eval (range of conditions, range of platforms) of the 
mirage stack (network and/or block) would also be useful and might make a good 
ug project.

continuing some of the work that mindy preston did during her opw internship 
fuzz-testing the network stack would probably also be useful.

-- 
Cheers,

R.

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