On 14/03/2018 11:27, Ahmad Syahir Shahrin wrote:
I originally posted this on the forum but someone think I would fare
better on the mailing list. I don’t know if this is the right
mailing-list to post but I’ll take my chance. Here it is.
You'ld probably find one of the more technical lists more useful,
especially once you've narrowed down the scope of your project.
freebsd-questions@ is good for less directed questions, and
freebsd-hackers@ is good for more technical discussions which don't fit
into any of the more specific lists.
I need to come up with a 2-3 months duration school project but
couldn’t figure what to do. I enroll in data communication and
networking course but the main focus has always been about configuring
interfaces, addressing, routing, NAT, ACL and pretty much what they have
on Cisco’s network academy for routing & switching track. I also make
myself to understand the different protocols used in basic TCP/IP
communication and their format(Ethernet II, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, NDP and
etc.). I’m thinking about using virtualization such as VirtualBox and
GNS3 and of course I’d love to squeeze FreeBSD into the picture wherever
possible. I can program a little bit in C, Java, Perl and shell but I
wouldn’t count that much on them. That said, I’d be very grateful for
any suggestion.
One thing you might find interesting is looking at how you can manage an
IP address range allocation across a diverse range of client systems:
routers, firewalls, switches, servers, end-user client machines in an
efficient and error-free way.
There's plenty of prior art in doing this, so a lot of the project would
be researching how other people / companies have done this. What all
those things should have in common is some single, central "source of
truth" -- generally known as an IPAM system. (For example, this is a
good product: https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox -- it needs a bit
of porting work to get it running on FreeBSD, which I have been looking
at, but not got very far with yet.)
The interesting part comes in how you integrate your IPAM database with
DHCP and DNS servers, with directory systems like FreeIPA or Active
Directory, with configuration management software like Puppet or
Ansible, etc. etc. particularly at scale, where the importance of having
a single central source of truth is magnified.
Cheers,
Matthew
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