Part B - Networking Projects - Implement TCP/IP Stack in C

Welcome to the Part-B of the TCP/IP Stack Development Course Series. This is a sequel course to Part-A in which we implemented a pseudo TCP/IP Stack working in Virtualized topology.

In this Course, We shall be implementing more advanced and additional features to our Pseudo TCP/IP Stack and would try to impart a more realistic flavor to it.

We will resume from where we left in Part-A. If you have signed up for this course, I presume you have completed Part-A of the course and we are ready for another roller coaster ride into our project.

This course is Advanced as compared to Part-A. In this course we will learn some more aspects of TCP/IP stack and in general, how Networking software is developed. You will not only doing Networking Based Programming but also, you will continue doing a typical Linux based System Programming development as Networking is strongly tied to System Programming.

Student Level: Intermediate to Advanced to Working Professionals, Beginners in Coding pls excuse this course.

Table of Contents

1. What is this Course all about?

2. Project 1 : Interface Management and Statistics

• Enable/Disable an Interface

• Gathering Interface Rx/Tx Statistics

3. Project 2 : Implementing the Packet Generator

• Create and Feed Pkt stream into Topology

4. Project 3 : Implementing Routing Table Construction Algorithm

• Designing Data Structure                                 

• Shortest Path First Algorithm in Detail                             

• Implementation Strategy               

• Testing SPF Algorithm Implementation

• Route Calculation

5. Project 4 : Logging Infra

• Track Ingress and Egress pkts per device per interface

• Track L3 Path taken by a pkt from src to dst

6. Project 5 : Notification Chains

• Introduction to NFC

• Understand with the help of Example

• Writing a Generic NOTIF Infra code

• Writing TCP/IP Stack NFC

• Implement Publisher Subscriber APIs

• See NFC in Action                                     

7. Project 6 : Working with Timers

• Implementing Ageism

• Implement Timer State Machine