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/*
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* Copyright 2004 Philippe Houdoin
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* Copyright 2009-2015 Haiku, Inc. All rights reserved.
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* Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
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*
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* Authors:
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* Philippe Houdoin
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* John Scipione, jscipione@gmail.com
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*/
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/*!
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\page network_intro Introduction to the Network Kit
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The Haiku Network Kit consists of:
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- A modular, add-ons based network stack
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- Two shared libraries, libnet.so and libnetapi.so
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- A stack driver, acting as interface between the network stack and
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libnet.so
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- Basic network apps
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- A modular GUI preflet
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The libnet.so shared library is the way that BeOS R5 provided POSIX/BSD
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API sockets to apps. Being binary compatible with BeOS R5 has made this
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library implementation tedious. To counter this, the libnetapi.so shared
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library was developed. It contains thin C++ classes wrapping the C
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sockets POSIX/BSD API into these BNet* classes we're used under BeOS.
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The stack driver is the interface between libnet.so and the real stack
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behind it, hosted by the network stack kernel modules. Its purposes
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include:
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-# Providing sockets to file descriptors translation support
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-# Providing support for select() on sockets
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-# Loading the network stack on first access, and then keeping it for
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further accesses
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The following diagram illustrates the network stack design on Haiku:
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\image html obos_net_stack_design_1.gif
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The Network Kit includes a handful of useful networking related apps
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including ping, ifconfig, route, traceroute, and arp.
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See the User Guide for more information about the
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<a href="http://haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/network.html">Network preferences app</a>
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included as part of the Network Kit.
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*/
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