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<TITLE> Networking</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="node18.html">Different Streaks of Development</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node3.html">Introduction to Networking</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node16.html">The Socket Library</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION003400000"> Networking</A></H1>
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Being the result of a concerted effort of programmers around the world,
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wouldn't have been possible without the global network. So
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it's not surprising that already in early stages of development, several
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people started to work on providing it with network capabilities. A UUCP
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implementation was running on almost from the very beginning,
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and work on TCP/IP-based networking started around autumn-1992, when
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Ross Biro and others created what now has become known as Net-1.
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<P>
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After Ross quit active development in May 1993, Fred van Kempen began to
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work on a new implementation, rewriting major parts of the code. This
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ongoing effort is known as Net-2. A first public release, Net-2d, was
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made in Summer 1992 (as part of the 0.99.10 kernel), and has since been
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maintained and expanded by several people, most notably Alan Cox, as
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Net-2Debugged. After heavy debugging and numerous improvements to the
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code, he changed its name to Net-3 after 1.0 was released.
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This is the version of the networking code currently included in the
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official kernel releases.
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<P>
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Net-3 offers device drivers for a wide variety of Ethernet boards, as
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well as SLIP (for sending network traffic over serial lines), and PLIP
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(for parallel lines). With Net-3, has a TCP/IP
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implementation that behaves very well in a local area network
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environment, showing uptimes that beat some of the commercial PC
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. Development currently moves toward the necessary stability to
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reliably run it on Internet hosts.
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<P>
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Beside these facilities, there are several projects going on that will
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enhance the versatility of . A driver for PPP (the
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point-to-point protocol, another way to send network traffic over
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serial lines), is at Beta stage currently, and an AX.25 driver for ham
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radio is at Alpha stage. Alan Cox has also implemented a driver for
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Novell's IPX protocol, but the effort for a complete networking suite
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compatible with Novell's has been put on hold for the moment, because
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of Novell's unwillingness to provide the necessary documentation.
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Another very promising undertaking is <a href="../refs/samba.faq">samba</a>, a
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NetBIOS server for Un*x, written by Andrew Tridgell.<A HREF="footnode.html#744"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A>
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<P>
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<LI> <A HREF="node18.html#SECTION003410000">Different Streaks of Development</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node19.html#SECTION003420000">Where to Get the Code</A>
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<HR><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="node18.html">Different Streaks of Development</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node3.html">Introduction to Networking</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node16.html">The Socket Library</A>
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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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