The standard name for this is 'inetd' :P so yes, even in UNIX there is some userland code :))) (anyway that doesn't strickly belong to the networking stack) En réponse à Erik Reid <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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.. :) > > >