Suggestion for network-related project

[Ahmad Syahir Shahrin]

I originally posted this on the forum but someone think I would fare better on the mailing list. I don’t know if this is the right mailing-list to post but I’ll take my chance. Here it is.

I need to come up with a 2-3 months duration school project but couldn’t figure what to do. I enroll in data communication and networking course but the main focus has always been about configuring interfaces, addressing, routing, NAT, ACL and pretty much what they have on Cisco’s network academy for routing & switching track. I also make myself to understand the different protocols used in basic TCP/IP communication and their format(Ethernet II, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, NDP and etc.). I’m thinking about using virtualization such as VirtualBox and GNS3 and of course I’d love to squeeze FreeBSD into the picture wherever possible. I can program a little bit in C, Java, Perl and shell but I wouldn’t count that much on them. That said, I’d be very  grateful for any suggestion.