Need Homework (Multi-threading & Networking)

Nope, don't need anyone to do my homework.... well outta school thank God.. but rather I need some homework. Specifically a good problem regarding Multi-Threading and one requiring Networking. Not sure exactly what to search for on Google and was hoping someone here had a good problem they have done in the past that I could work on to learn these two concepts... They don't have to be one single problem involving both Multi-Threading and Networking.. two separate ones would do. Hope this is appropriate to ask this kind of question here. If it isn't just delete it or close it.

That's tough... I'm not sure if this would encompass multithreading, but perhaps make some sort of IRC client that can connect to and run on multiple servers at once.

hmmm.. not bad... could use individual threads for each connection.. have had some experience with multi-threading in java, but no networking what so ever... would connecting to an IRC server be very hard to do? doesn't sound too difficult and would seem to be something I can work on only having 1 computer.. would connecting to a remote server be something easy to debug / test?


Edit: Oh yeah.. think the IRC problem would have critical data sections? I wanted to make sure I would learn about Mutexs, etc.. What do they call that.. a consumer/producer problem or something? Man I wish I could remember some of my Java multi-threading homework :P Something about an elevator.. or 5 people at a table sharing a bowl or rice?!? anyone done something like that? And also, I don't suppose there is a way to practice networking programming while just using one computer is there besides an IRC type program where I would be connecting to a remote server?

I don't suppose there is a way to practice networking programming while just using one computer is there

No, you can have one program connect with another through a specific port on the same computer. Launch telnet twice, for example. Typing in one makes the characters also appear in the other. telnet uses sockets.

I don't know what you're using for multithreading and socket programming, but pthread and the standard UNIX socket library is my guess.

sockets
http://www.lowtek.com/sockets/
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

pthread
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...tutorial&meta=
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ixThreads.html

A multithreaded HTTP server. The basics of the HTTP protocol are pretty easy, so that's a nice server-side networking exercise, and by making it multithreaded you have the threading part. Not sure how much thread synchronization there will be, though.