Musings of a socket scientist

Welcome, and thanks for stopping by!

I am an engineer with the Solaris network performance team. The network performance team works on various performance related issues in the solaris networking (TCP/IP) stack.

I have been at Sun for a little over 8 years now- this being my first job out of grad school. I started on the Solaris 64-bit port project and then moved onto doing some work on PPP (point to point protocol). My interests later took me onto Mobile IP.

My most recent contirbution to solaris 10 was the virtual IP source address selection feature which facilitates IP multipathing in conjunction with routing protocols like OSPF. I plan to post some details on this in a later blog.

At the moment, I have been involved with making our IP forwarding table lookup faster using some creative lookup algorithms. I've also written a high speed traffic generator in the recent past (more on that later as well). I have also started to look into asynchronous sockets for solaris.

In life outside of work, besides spending time with my angels (my wife, 2 year old daughter and lab/terrier), I love volunteering. I have been involved with a non-profit Charityfocus) since it's inception (1997) where we have tried to leverage web technology for the 'greater good' through various projects. I also have been volunteering at the pathways hospice, providing companionship to terminally ill patients, for over 3 years.