1/* 2 * Copyright 2004 Philippe Houdoin 3 * Copyright 2009-2015 Haiku, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License. 5 * 6 * Authors: 7 * Philippe Houdoin 8 * John Scipione, jscipione@gmail.com 9 */ 10 11 12/*! 13 \page network_intro Introduction to the Network Kit 14 15 The Haiku Network Kit consists of: 16 - A modular, add-ons based network stack 17 - Two shared libraries, libnet.so and libnetapi.so 18 - A stack driver, acting as interface between the network stack and 19 libnet.so 20 - Basic network apps 21 - A modular GUI preflet 22 23 The libnet.so shared library is the way that BeOS R5 provided POSIX/BSD 24 API sockets to apps. Being binary compatible with BeOS R5 has made this 25 library implementation tedious. To counter this, the libnetapi.so shared 26 library was developed. It contains thin C++ classes wrapping the C 27 sockets POSIX/BSD API into these BNet* classes we're used under BeOS. 28 29 The stack driver is the interface between libnet.so and the real stack 30 behind it, hosted by the network stack kernel modules. Its purposes 31 include: 32 -# Providing sockets to file descriptors translation support 33 -# Providing support for select() on sockets 34 -# Loading the network stack on first access, and then keeping it for 35 further accesses 36 37 The following diagram illustrates the network stack design on Haiku: 38 39 \image html obos_net_stack_design_1.gif 40 41 The Network Kit includes a handful of useful networking related apps 42 including ping, ifconfig, route, traceroute, and arp. 43 44 See the User Guide for more information about the 45 <a href="http://haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/network.html">Network preferences app</a> 46 included as part of the Network Kit. 47*/ 48
