[openbeos] Re: Networking : R5 or BONE

  • From: Erik Reid <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:09:39 -0700

Quoth "Axel =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6rfler" ?=:
>
>> >-- yes, there will be a net_server (like with BeOS R5)
>> This is correct.  The actual network stack stuff (arp cache, routing, 
>> sockets..)
>
>What for do we need the net_server, then?

It'd run the FTP or Telnet or whatever services we've got.. Load/unload the
networking modules automatically..  I dunno, hadn't really thought about it,
just figured it 'should' be there so that we have a standard way to handle
userland networking bits.. :)


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