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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2996 comp.os.linux.misc:20900 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!not-for-mail From: chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: TCP/IP implementations (was: Re: ... flame war ...) Date: 3 Aug 1994 10:13:03 +1000 Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <31mnef$7kc@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <Ct5qpn.G6E@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU><9407221206.29@rmkhome.com> <DHOLLAND.94Jul25171448@scws33.harvard.edu> <CtKBJ5.77B@rex.uokhsc.edu> <31913c$omi@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen) writes: >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. Aparantly SysV networking was originally based on BSDs. Aparantly Solaris is the exception. >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? Why do you admire the work the Linux people have done? Why wouldn't admire them for writing the networking from scratch the way they have written the kernel from scratch? Sure the networking isn't up to bsd standards at this time. But then neither was the kernel if you go back far enough.