A project to get familiar with networks as an admin

Hi I am currently a CS student who finished their freshman year. The current languages I am familiar with are C#, VB, Java, and Python. I know some query language and used a couple of SQL databases before. I am also familiar with IIS.

I have looked up am undergraduate internship for next year. Most of the skills I need for that internship I will learn during my sophomore year, with the exception of C++ language, Linux operating system, GNU tool chains. I am not sure if UNIX tools is similar or the same as GNU tool chains. Is UNIX a microsoft tool chain? Also I am going to learn C during the second half of my sophomore year. Is going into C++ an easy transition from C?

Anyways I am here to ask for a project, simple or complex, to get me familiar with networks as an admin(IPv4 and/or IPv6). Also to get me some experience with network stacks. I don't know if I can do this C#, because that is the most familiar language I know, or do I have to do the project in C/C++?

Can anyone help with this? I really want to prepare for this internship ^_^

Thanks for being interested in my question!

Tags: C++, C, C#, Networking, Network, IPv6