From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 7 19:10: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBD437B401 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D5C1E6ACE7; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:40:13 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:40:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Johnson Cc: kevin godfrey , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux using BSD TCP/IP stack? (was: Actual Microsoft Question (Was: Re: Microsoft Bashers)) Message-ID: <20010808114013.E78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <009301c11e4a$3f560620$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3B6FCF84.DA6E5177@ticktockman.com> <3B70270B.34BAD6D@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B70270B.34BAD6D@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:36:11AM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 10:36:11 -0700, David Johnson wrote: > kevin godfrey wrote: > >> So as I see it, most of the major operating systems TCP/IP implementations are >> based on BSD. If I recall correctly, didn't Linux adopt the BSD stack not too >> long ago? Or am I mistaken? > > IIRC, Linux used to use the BSD stack, but they have reimplemented it in > 2.4x. Why? I don't know. It wasn't broken, so I can only guess > embarassment was the cause. No, AFAIK Linux never used BSD code. It seems they were concerned about the BSD wars of the time. And last time I looked at it (earlier this year), it was still very different. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message