There are some very hard problems in handling IPv6 scopes.
If you want a really good PhD thesis, consider examining the problem
of safe and stable load balancing across multiple asymmetric paths.
E.g. what happens if SCTP sees two paths but they really share a few
hops? You could end up competing with yourself for bandwidth. It's a
very hard problem--that's why the Jedi Council removed load balancing
from SCTP.
Mauro Tortonesi writes:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Jon Grimm wrote:
>
> > Mauro,
> >
> > I'm glad you ask, since it gives me a chance to put in a little plug for
> > the lksctp project.
> >
> > No, we aren't abandoned at all.
> >
> > It is quite true that we've been on a base of 2.4.1 overly long. We
> > are in the active process of moving to a 2.4.17 base and redoing our
> > file hierarchy to better allow us to stay up with current kernels. We
> > will hopefully be more nimble in the future, but our current code is
> > only available as anonymous download in CVS.
> >
> > Overall, we'd love to get into 2.5, however realize we have a bit of
> > work to focus on first.
> >
> > For more information, please visit the project's website at:
> > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lksctp
> >
> > For more information on the SCTP protocol, see RFC 2960 at:
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt
>
> thanks for your kind answer, jon. i am looking for an interesting topic
> for my master thesis, and i am especially interested in next generation
> networking protocols, like ipv6 and, of course, sctp.
>
> for my thesis, i'd really like to implement some functionality in the
> linux kernel which could also be useful to the opensource community.
>
> unfortunately, it seems that much of ipv6 and sctp features have already
> been implemented in linux, from the usagi and lksctp projects,
> respectively, and there's not much left to be done - at least not so much
> IMHO to do a thesis about it.
>
> so, if any of you has a good idea or knows an interesting networking
> feature which still needs to be implemented in linux (especially some
> kernel stuff) and deserves someone to write a thesis about it, please let
> me know.
>
> thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem...
>
> Mauro Tortonesi mauro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
> Project6 - IPv6 for Linux http://project6.ferrara.linux.it
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