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soc:2011:pcmattman:journal:week1 [2011/05/23 18:18]
pcmattman created the first week's journal page and the first day's entry
soc:2011:pcmattman:journal:week1 [2011/05/27 17:44] (current)
pcmattman day 5
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 All up, a good first day of GSoC 2011! All up, a good first day of GSoC 2011!
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 +==== Day 2 (May 24) ====
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 +Managed to get some more progress on the IPv6 implementation today. I figured out how to create a command and added the "​ipv6"​ command to begin testing stateless autoconfiguration (as per the project plan). So far so good - the only thing I really need to do now is actually assign IPv6 addresses to netdevices so they can begin talking on the network for NDP and other ICMPv6 stuff (in week 2). That'​ll come soon.
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 +I also created a [[https://​picasaweb.google.com/​pcmattman/​GoogleSummerOfCode2011?​authkey=Gv1sRgCImD_Zf4zsaUsgE&​feat=directlink| Google Picasa album for my work]] on this project, so I can look back on screenshots and photographs and see my progress :). I uploaded a photo of one of my test machines creating a useful autoconfiguration IPv6 address, and it also shows some IPv6 traffic passing through.
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 +Guo-Fu gave some good advice for the code I've written so far - mainly with respect to committing it.
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 +==== Day 3 (May 25) ====
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 +I didn't manage to get any code written today - a few appointments and work commitments.
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 +Marty set me up with an account on the server though, so I now have a non-github git repository to work in.
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 +==== Day 4 (May 26) ====
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 +Started working on getting gPXE to recognise IPv6 addresses in URLs - so things such as [[http://​[fc00::​1]/​test.bin]] will work. Managed to get [[http://​git.etherboot.org/​people/​pcmattman/​gpxe.git/​commit/​86d366c76ba0e19a7746328ecf8ab741c18b80b1|inet6_aton implemented]] and [[http://​git.etherboot.org/​people/​pcmattman/​gpxe.git/​commit/​47d74999359f63432503b6dea868d1608f6fc41e|some work towards URI parsing]] for IPv6 addresses.
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 +I created a develop branch in the git repository to do all my development in, so I can bring commits across into master and squash them with git-rebase as needed.
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 +I'm hoping to get this sorted ready for week 2 where I'll get neighbour solicit and advertisements working and maybe get some ICMPv6 echo responses out.
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 +Haven'​t managed to get much working tonight - need to figure out how to convince HTTP to transmit TCP over IPv6, as it seems to be struggling to do that at the moment. Tonight'​s commits are valid and working though.
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 +Been having some issues with the gPXE and the serial port on my primary test machine, might switch focus and fix that while I figure out the HTTP/IPv6 stuff.
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 +==== Day 5 (May 27) ====
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 +Spent some time figuring out how requesting a kernel over HTTP works at each layer in gPXE - once I have a better idea of the links between each layer I can figure out where connecting to an IPv6 host is failing.
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 +I can at least use QEMU for this part of the testing as I don't need actual IPv6 traffic from the network to test with - that's improved my compile/​test cycle speed significantly! :)

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