[openbeos] Re: OBOS Networking
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 19:55:16 CEST (+0200)
Clay wrote:
> I hate to sound utterly dense here, but my question is still,
> how does it
> interface with the net stack? I can easily read the exact protocol
> for talking
> to the DHCP server and getting an IP. My question is what to "do"
> with it,
> where to pass it off...what reads it..something like that.
> Further, if we are changing networking to be more technically
> sophisticated, I don't know that it even makes sense to have a binary
> called
> "dhcp_client". Maybe the code for doing this work ought to be in
> some other
> program, so that whatever parts of networking that are 'talking' to
> "dhcp_client" can do it within the same app. I think it would be
> helpful for
> me, and many of us, to have a clearly laid out structure for OBOS
> networking.
> I still don't feel like that's been decided or discussed...and when
> you talk
> about reading ifconfig code..are you saying that OBOS is going to use
> ifconfig?
> eth0? Unix-style networking standards? Hmmmm....
First of all, the right forum to address this would be the network ML -
not the main list.
Second, AFAIK the only description/specs of the OBOS networking stack
are in David's head - and I doubt that he wants to write them down.
So we might have to "reengineer" the architecture ourselves. Anyway, I
think it's similar to BONE, but what do I know? :)
Adios...
Axel.
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