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<TITLE>Different Streaks of Development</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node19.html">Where to Get the </A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node17.html"> Networking</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node17.html"> Networking</A>
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<H2><A NAME="SECTION003410000">Different Streaks of Development</A></H2>
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In the meanwhile, Fred continued development, going on to Net-2e, which
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features a much revised design of the networking layer. At the time of
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writing, Net-2e is still Beta software. Most notable about Net-2e is
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the incorporation of DDI, the <em>Device Driver Interface</em>. DDI offers
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a uniform access and configuration method to all networking devices and
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protocols.
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<P>
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Yet another implementation of TCP/IP networking comes from Matthias
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Urlichs, who wrote an ISDN driver for Linux and FreeBSD. For this,
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he integrated some of the BSD networking code in the kernel.
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For the foreseeable future, however, Net-3 seems to be here to stay.
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Alan currently works on an implementation of the AX.25 protocol used
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by ham radio amateurs. Doubtlessly, the yet to be developed ``module''
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code for the kernel will also bring new impulses to the networking
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code. Modules allow you to add drivers to the kernel at run time.
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Although these different network implementations all strive to provide
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the same service, there are major differences between them at the
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kernel and device level. Therefore, you will not be able to configure
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a system running a Net-2e kernel with utilities from Net-2d or Net-3,
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and vice versa. This only applies to commands that deal with kernel
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internals rather closely; applications and common networking commands
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such as rlogin or telnet run on either of them.
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Nevertheless, all these different network version should not worry you.
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Unless you are participating in active development, you will not have to
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worry about which version of the TCP/IP code you run. The official
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kernel releases will always be accompanied by a set of networking tools
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that are compatible with the networking code present in the kernel.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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