FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Few more things...

[Mark Hellegers <M.H.Hellegers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm just a lurker mainly. I don't do any direct networking, but I'm using
BeOS as a server (diner, campus) and am working as a contributor on Themis
(browser).
Net_server currently sucks a bit for doing server stuff, so I'm hoping for
a new network stack that will be better.

>
>Just a few things that have made appearances in my scatter brain today...
>
>- we should have a split architecture, where the bare bones are in the
>kernel (the really important stuff that needs to go like stink) and the
>actual protocol stuff done in add-ons.

Do you mean here that you want a userland network here, like net_server ?
What is the general idea about that anyway ? Kernel level, or user level ?
Also, I heard that the people behind the Mail Daemon Replacement wanted to
do a network stack as well. Anybody heard anything on that ?

One last question: Themis needs an OpenSSL implementation that works with
net_server. Is there such a thing or someone who can make it work ? I know
this actually doesn't belong here, but you guys seem to know a lot about
networking.

Mark