[openbeos] Re: How far along is Haiku networking?

I agree completely with reusing the excellent net stacks already out there. From the looks of their page, Dragonfly seems to be more forward looking, and more 'be-ish' in their approach-
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/goals/messaging.cgi

On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:25 PM, mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Haiku networking, as I have been told, is a mess. The code was created
with a strong eye on FreeBSD of that time period. The problem is that
FreeBSD, back then (2002 or so) had a lot of multi-processor issues,
again, as I understand it. On top of that, it seems a little silly,
honestly, for us to have a networking stack to maintain. There are
people out there who HAVE good networking stacks right now. Networking
is something that it is really hard to do a better job of than, say, BSD
or Linux. We are better off focusing on the stuff that we do better...

So we are looking at using a (new) BSD networking stack and making a
(hopefully) thin, non performance impacting compatability layer for
networking so that we can continue to use the improvements that others
make over time.

Among the interested devs, there is currently a debate between FreeBSD
and DragonFly as to the better choice.


----- Original Message -----
From: Shaka <shaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 17, 2006 5:04 pm
Subject: [openbeos] How far along is Haiku networking?
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Just curious- how far along is Haiku networking?
How long till we can DL and build in Haiku?





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