TCP/IP Emulator (Draft Title)

Stop Press: Final Report

F.Aslam [Software Engineering - 2000/01]

The aim of the project is to design and develop a design tool which will test systems which implement one or more of the TCP/IP protocols, such as HTTP (WWW access), FTP (file transfer), TELNET (remote login), and so on. The test system will use a client/server architecture, where the device on-test will act as the client, and the other program will act as a

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server. Each client will make requests for a given protocol to the server, which will respond with a basic set of responses. The project will thus split into six main areas:

	Research Defining each of the TCP/IP protocols from RFC documents, such as RFC821 which defines the SMTP protocol (e-mail), RFC2068 (HTTP), and so on.
	Setup of a client/server program This will setup a basic text-based connection between the client and the server, and will test the link over a network.
	Implementation of a basic set of protocols This will be the investigation of the implementation into one or more of the TCP/IP.
	Full design This will uses the research and implementation parts to develop the design for a full system.
	Prototype (partial implementation) This will take part of the full design and implement it as a partial implementation
	Project write-up Defines the main objectives of the project, cover the theory of TCP/IP and show the implementation of the protocols, a full design and outline the developed prototype.

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