[kea-dev] Fwd: GSoC Proposal Enquiry - leasequery

[Tomek Mrugalski]

On 13/03/2018 09:18, Tobi Obadiah wrote:
> My name is Olwatobi Obadiah, am a final year Computer Science student at
> the University of Buea.
Hi,
Thanks for your interest in Kea.

> Having had/develop lots of interest in internetworking and its
> applications, I am hoping
> Internet Systems Consortium and the Kea project will be a great place to
> learn/develop up to advance features of DHCP  and network core technologies.
> 
> I am proficient in C/C++ 
I'll send you a separate mail off the list with some extra questions.
I'd appreciate if you could answer them.

> with which project no. 10 is proposed, I think
> this will be a great place to kickstart.
Project no. 10 is bit brief. Can you describe in your own words how do
you understand the goal of the proposal?

> I am familiarizing myself with the project and eagerly waiting for a
> reply on how to get started.
Here are some pointers to get you started:

1. Have you installed Kea?

2. Have you been able to configure it and let it assign addresses to
clients?

3. Do you know what a leasequery is?

4. Do you know what an RFC document is and where it comes from?

5. Which RFC defines the leasequery mechanism? Have you read it?

6. Have you used Google Test before? Were you able to build Kea with
unit-tests? Were you able to run those tests?

To help you a bit answering those questions, I'm sure you know the Kea
website. You have User's guide there in 2 versions: stable that
describes the latest released version (currently 1.3.0) and development
(that is rebuilt daily from our github). Please read the sections of it
that describe how to install Kea. Make sure you also take a look at the
Kea Developer's guide, that explains the internals.

Please keep in mind that the goal of this phase is for you, the student,
to write a project proposal. Mentors can guide you a bit, but it's
mostly up to you. In a sense, it's the test how much you're interested
in the project, whether you're able to understand its goals and if your
skills are sufficient to succeed.

Good luck and welcome to the Kea project,
Tomek Mrugalski
ISC