So I figured that even though the Summer of Code has finished I am still going to keep posting here. Mostly I will be posting about the progress of MPLS in FreeBSD, but I will also write a few other posts about other interesting, and not so interesting depending on your point of view, things that I am up to.
As I am writing this I currently have just under 4 weeks till I have finished university, hopefully for good. I have been going through the process of trying to find a job that I can step into once I complete my degree but unfortunately the graduate IT jobs in New Zealand are few and far between, so much so that I have started applying for jobs overseas.
The biggest problem with this time of year is the amount of work that is due in a matter of a few weeks. I have been working a lot on getting my assignments done. The majority of them are reasonably standard and uninteresting, like the work I have been doing in XNA using Vertex and Pixel Shaders, but some of it is a lot more interesting. The biggest project I have at the moment, besides my Implementation of MPLS in FreeBSD which is due in 5 weeks, is a Distributed File System using FUSE. This file system, if successful, may be looked at for using on the University of Waikato’s cluster computer.
Hopefully within the next week I will have some serious time to go over MPLS. I am up to the stage now of testing the code for receiving and sending of packets, and hopefully that works pretty quickly so I can start on routing table implementation and then maybe even move onto LDP, but I very much doubt I will have the time before the dissertation on the project is due (approximately October 24th).
Regarding a clustering filesystem that uses FUSE: http://www.gluster.org/
The project looks very promising and the latest beta is easily ported to FreeBSD.