gundapi

• Nov 17th, 2007

 

The simple and basic steps to implement any protocol are as below. This is truly n exclusively what I follow :)

1)Read the RFC/draft carefully
2)Freeze the requirements for the sections of RFC, that u r going to implement.
3)Make the rough design, I mean modules and the mode of their interaction (can be IPC/plane function calls/library etc etc)
4) Define the data structures (req/rsp, global db etc)
5)Freeze the function prototypes (may change during integration, But make sure u design it so as to make minimal changes during integration)
6) Implement the skeleton ( Core functions) .. If threads/process involves, then implement core thread call back functions ..
7) Keep on adding according to RFC statements to it ..

8) Develop management interfaces(CLI, SNMP etc) if it requires at the last

Hope it ll b useful