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Considering how talented Hugo is, if the guy keeps this pace and decides to keep contributing after GSoC is over, I'd wager it is going to beat the hell out of not only net_server, but perhaps even BONE itself.

Go Hugo!

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Can't wait for R1+, that's all I've got to say on this topic. I've seen the changes being reported by the "bot" on freenode, it's pretty impressive!

Keep up the great work, Hugo, it's very much appreciated.

Thanks, Urias... at the relatively low bandwidth, this is a fairly light test, but it is useful to see where the holes still are in a real-life environment, and it has been useful.

Here's hoping soon your machine will peg your bandwidth without problems soon!

Judging by what the Haiku team have pulled off so far, I would not be in the least surprised if they do.

Consider the complexity of implementing a network stack from scratch in the first place, never mind an operating system.

Then, look at all the documentation with source code available from solid, secure and stable network stacks and I don't see how they can get it wrong.

*BSD and Linux is a great start when checking out other implementations and I doubt I'm the only person on this planet to have thought of that.

Nice to see the Haiku project really build up steam, I was a bit worried far a while there. :-)

do YOU have the competence to make a secure net stack? If so, why not help them out? One must look at their own competence before attacking someone else's.

Since the others didn't answer in as much detail, leaving readers to possibly wonder, I'll provide a little clarification:

The new Haiku stack is closer to BONE, yes, and is intended to be at least as powerful, but it will have a userspace interface for backwards compatibility with Netserver, but unlike NetServer, and like BONE, it will exist entirely in kernel space.

Other relevant details have been covered sufficiently by other posters before I saw your post, but I can add one minor addition/clarification to a statement made below: the Haiku stack isn't based off any other stack as discussed on the discussion lists, because the locking model of Haiku is too different to the point where it would likely be as hard to replicate a BSD-like stack without employing a BKL (Big Kernel Lock) or otherwise compromising the kernel for SMP support and scalability.

Axel discussed the design of the Haiku netstack with the other developers for a while, and then he designed Haiku's own netstack from scratch. Of course he looked at the other implementations and borrowed good ideas, mostly from BONE AFAIK. But it is wrong to say that the Haiku netstack is *based* on the freebsd 6.0 stack or any other. The Haiku stack is not a port, and the pros and cons of that decision were well discussed.

Best regards,
-Stephan

This site should be renamed HaikuNews

I like news about Haiku and other alternative oses a lot more then any Vista or Linux news.
For me, that's why I come to OSnews.

Edited 2007-04-17 13:42

fully agreed, so altOSnews.com
(Haikunews exist already anyway)

Edited 2007-04-17 13:41