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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: TCP/IP implementations (was: Re: ... flame war ...)
Date: 28 Jul 1994 21:31:56 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
>Linux is about the only UNIX-alike that doesn't base their TCP/IP code
>on BSD's.
Well ... I didn't know all the SysV's use BSD networking.
I think their TCP/IP inmplementation is streams based with a sockets API
as an addon that sometimes plain doesn't work.
The guys who did the IP are some company called "Lachman Associates", hence
the copyright notice at networking startup.
This holds for every V.3 or V.4 I've ever worked on, sorry no NET/2 *sigh*.
I don't understand what's so difficult in just taking some _known_to_work_
code lying around for free and make it fit in one's own system.
Must be anotehr incarnation of the "not invented here"-syndrome.
I admire all the work the Linux people did a helluva lot, but for god's
sake, why did they have to write the networking from scratch, too?
My $.02, correct me, if I'm wrong.
Paddy
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