[openss7] contribution to the project?

["vaclav urbanek" <xurbanev@fel.cvut.cz>]

Hi all,
	my name is Vaclav Urbanek. I am student of Czech technical university in Prague. (department of telecomunications). I am writing my diploma work on theme: "The transport of signalisation of telephony switches over internet". My task is also to try to implement a server under UNIX/LINUX which should be able to carry a ss7 over IP. I must finish it till 26 January 2001. I was wery glad to catch your site on the net.
	I am going to get soon one card which is on the vendor list. It is COSA card from Masaryk University in Czech Republic. Therefore I am going to try to write an MTP L2 driver for this card.
	My biggest advantage is a big amount of time for it - It is only thing to do for me now. I have also a big appetite to learn things and try it. I am not much experienced in programming under the kernel. But of course I have quite good sources of informations.
	The second thing to implement is a module which will be able to carry SS7 over Internet. I supposed that for me it would be best to implement module that employes this by means of SIGTRAN IPlink protocol. The leader of my work also said: "It could be fine if there would be a possibility to route messages according to DPC's". But the base for me is to implement a link connection for expamle by IPlink.
	I don't know exactly what is the present status of devlopment. The last status on the web is from 22. Sep. 2000. In section Whats's done isn't any note about COSA card L2 and imlementation of IPlink.
	Please write me about present status. Also at the mailing list I have read that there is more source code and information about project. I will be glad, if somebody send me something what could me help. (more source). It would be nice if my work will be compatible with openSS7 project of course. Is there anobody else who imlements the IPlink (over TCP)?
	I have also a particular access to some test gear for SS7.
	Thank you for all your replies.
Vaclav Urbanek