[openbeos] Re: Question about net stack in Haiku

kamikazow@xxxxxx wrote:
> As I see it, the net stack timeline is like this:
> 
> 2002 a net_server replacement by David Reid.
> <http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/16/234250>
> <http://www.freelists.org/archives/openbeos/04-2002/msg00475.html>

Indeed, that's what we usually refer to as the "messy" BSD port.

> 2004/2005 Marrow -- A BONE-like implementation by porting a BSD net
> stack to Haiku also by David
> <http://www.david-reid.com/projects/marrow/index.html>

Marrow didn't have anything to do with Haiku; it was/is a private 
project of David.

> And now (2006/2007) a new net stack written from scratch by Axel.
> Is this correct or did I miss a revision?

I think that's basically right - even though Hugo and Oliver have 
contributed a large part of what is the networking stack, too.

Bye,
   Axel.

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