[NTLUG:Discuss] Better than linux?

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Kendall Clark writes:
- >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Schnoebelen <eric at cirr.com> writes:
- 
-     Eric> 	How is this different from the (open|free|net)BSD?
-     Eric> Don't forget that much of the original networking code for
-     Eric> Linux came from BSD (and I believe that most of the userland
-     Eric> networking code is still BSD derived.)
- 
- Alan Cox said something recently about the Linux tcp/ip stack having
- been totally rewritten from scratch; and, iirc, he denied that it had
- ever simply 'come from' *BSD. But I don't remember the details.

	As I recall, the Linux TCP/IP stack as been rewritten at
least _3_ times. And you're right, the BSD TCP/IP stack could
never have been directly incorporated into the Linux kernel,
since so many of the kernel structures were different.  
However, outside of the interfaces and kernel structure, I would
bet that the original TCP/IP stack might bear a strong
resemblence to BSD Net/2.

- What userland networking code do you have in mind?

	Little things, like telnet/telnetd, ftp/ftpd,
rlogin/rlogind, etc.

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