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From: c...@b64743.student.cwru.edu (Chad Dougherty)
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Subject: Can I use the BSD net code with Linux?
Date: 9 Nov 1993 17:26:59 GMT
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	I remember seeing somewhere that people were using the net code from
386bsd in Linux.  I was wondering if someone could give me some more
information about this.  I have been using the Linux NET-2 code for some
time now and am somewhat frustrated about the instability of it.  Can
someone direct me to a source of the port?  Thanx..

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From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can I use the BSD net code with Linux?
Date: 17 Nov 1993 15:39:03 +0200
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In article <2bojt3$...@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
Chad Dougherty <c...@b64743.student.cwru.edu> wrote:
>	I remember seeing somewhere that people were using the net code from
>386bsd in Linux.  I was wondering if someone could give me some more
>information about this.  I have been using the Linux NET-2 code for some
>time now and am somewhat frustrated about the instability of it.  Can
>someone direct me to a source of the port?  Thanx..

There was some work being done on a BSD net-2 port to linux, but it
seems to have fizzled out - I had a report of a working BSD net code
version, but it had some weird problems, probably due to the different
way BSD does some things (interrupt priority levels being suspect etc). 
I didn't pursue the port any closer, as there were problems (notably the
legal stuff with Novell). 

That said, there are linux ALPHA kernels available which seem to be
rather stable even in the networking department: I have heard very few
bad comments about them (and they have for a change been fs-related:
there were some changes in the filesystem that seem to have backfired). 
As always, my latest kernels can be found on nic.funet.fi in the
directory pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus (currently the latest one is 'pl13r'
and is two days old). 

Sorry for posting in a 386bsd group,

		Linus