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2020-02-02 05:52:28 +00:00
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## High level approach
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The design of this "BGP" router is based on an internal radix tree structure containing the routing
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database. Routes are indexed in the tree based on the bit pattern of their subnet, and route lookup
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walks the tree to find the most specific route node corresponding to the requested destination
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address. The router itself is based on Racket's built-in I/O multiplexing to automatically manage
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I/O between multiple sockets.
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## Challenges
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- **No existing radix tree package in Racket.**
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Due to Racket's unfortunate lack of adoption in the networks field, nobody has written any public
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radix tree library for Racket that we could find, so we had to implement our own. This went
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through approximately 3 iterations and it's still mildly spaghetti code.
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- **No stdlib `SOCK_SEQPACKET` support.**
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There's no support for `SOCK_SEQPACKET` in the standard UNIX domain socket module, so we pulled
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the source code for this module and added a mode for `SOCK_SEQPACKET`.
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- **Interesting simulator dependencies.**
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The provided simulator has a hard dependency on Python 3.6, which neither of us actually had
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installed or were capable of installing, and it did not work with Python 3.8.
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## Testing
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For the milestone submission, we included some basic internal unit tests but there isn't a lot of
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code coverage on those yet. We also ran the simulator milestone tests against the current router
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implementation and both milestone tests are passing.
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