Network Team

This team is responsible for adding to and maintaining the networking support (ethernet, WiFi, PPP and obviously the whole TCP/IP protocol stack) for Haiku.

Network Team mailing-list (archive)

Network stack related bugs and tasks

 

Components

• Network Kit
  • libnetwork.so library:
    • Sockets POSIX/BSD API
    • Naming APIs (DNS resolver, etc)
    • C++ network API (BNetEndpoint, BNetBuffer and like classes)
  • Command line tools: ifconfig, netstat, ping, arp, traceroute, telnet, ftp, tcpdump, wget. Also included are (or will be) daemons like telnetd and ftpd.
  • TODO: SSL/SSH tools
• Network stack
  • Kernel modules:
    • Stack core
    • Devices: ethernet, loopback
    • Data-link protocols: arp
    • Upper protocols: ipv4, icmp, udp, tcp
  • Drivers:
    • /dev/net/stack driver, the kernel / userland network stack "gate"
    • Legacy NE2000-compatible PCI chips: etherpci
    • Fast ethernet PCI chips: bcm440x, dp83815, rtl8139, sis900, via-rhine, wb840
    • Gigabits ethernet PCI chips: bcm570x, ipro1000, rtl8169
    • Wifi PCI chips: ipw2100
    • USB Ethernet adapters: pegasus
    • Special adapters: vlance (VMWare virtual ethernet device!)
    
    Notice that older BeOS ethernet kernel drivers should work too!
• Network Server
• Configuration: Automatic (DHCP client), from settings
• Network services listener & launcher (builtin inetd daemon)
• ...
• Network preflet

Team Members & Contributors

Team lead: Philippe Houdoin (phoudoin_at_haiku-os.org)

Main Contributors:

• Axel Dörfler
• Waldemar Kornewald
• Oliver Tappe
• Marcus Overhagen
• Jérôme Duval
• Nathan Whitehorn
• Andrew Galante

Areas Requiring Contribution

Development:

Documentation:

Testing:

Future Development (R2):

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