During October 2025, Equinox focused on enhancing the opensourcerouting/frr repository by addressing two critical bugs affecting BSD compatibility and routing accuracy. Working in C and leveraging expertise in network programming and socket programming, Equinox improved FreeBSD PimD’s IP_RECVIF handling by retrieving the interface index from sockaddr_dl when CMSG_IFINDEX was unavailable, ensuring robust cmsg loop processing. Additionally, Equinox refined routing metric logic to accept zero-valued interface metrics, enabling correct route establishment for protocols such as RIP. These targeted fixes deepened the reliability and correctness of network routing on BSD systems, reflecting a strong grasp of low-level system programming challenges.