New stack

As you may or may not know, I (hidnplayr) am since long time working on a new network stack for KolibriOS

I will use this page as an overview of what I have done so far.

You can download an image file with pre-compiled library, applications, kernel and drivers here
If you test it, please send me a bug-report

Kernel

The old kernel functions 52 and 53 have been removed and the New_network_api has been created.
Internally, the stack has been completely rewritten (mostly from scratch)

• What works

  • Attaching network drivers to the kernel
  • Sending and receiving Ethernet/IPv4/UDP/ICMP/ARP packets
  • IPv4/UDP/TCP/ARP/ICMP packet generation and confirmation
  • Queuing of packets (altough queing ethernet packets is disabled ATM)
  • UDP/TCP/RAW(ICMP) sockets
  • ~Working with multiple network card's (but no routing yet)
  • POSIX compatible socket functions

• Under construction

  • TCP code
  • Socket code
  • PPPoE support

• Future plans

  • IPC sockets
  • Port trunking
  • Routing
  • More network drivers

Merging with trunk

Things that need to be done before net branch will be merged with trunk:

1. finish things currently under construction
2. merge netcfg and zeroconf programs for a more flexible configuration

Drivers

In net-branch, the network drivers are external drivers, as described in Writing_drivers_for_KolibriOS.

The specifications of the new network drivers can be found in the article Writing_network_drivers_for_KolibriOS.

Working (more or less)

• 3c90x/3c59x: only boomerang for now (may hang on UpUnstall procedure, sometimes loops on startup)
• DEC21x4x: Working in Virtual PC (not on most real hardware yet)
• PCnet32: no known bugs
• RTL8029: no known bugs
• RTL8139: no known bugs
• RTL8169: no known bugs (not tested with PCI-express, initialisation takes a loooong time)
• SIS900: (Written by clevermouse, updated by hidnplayr but untested since)
• MTD80x: Only MTD803 aka Surecom EP-320X supported for now
• r6040: no know bugs

Work In Progress

• i8255x (Intel eepro 100)
• VIA rhine

Planned for future

• i8254x (Intel eepro 1000)
• marvell yukon (i have id5005)
• broadcom netXtreme (bcm57xx)
• Atheros (ar81xx)

Unsupported PCI card?

If you have a PCI network card wich is not listed above,
and would like to acces internet in KolibriOS, I have the perfect solution for you and me!
Send me the card, and I'll send back one that is supported.
This way, you are happy, and I can write the driver for the card whenever I feel like it, so I'm happy too.

Programs

ARPcfg

This program allows you to view the ARP entries.
In future, you should be able to add and remove static entry's using this progam.

ICMP

A program to ping a remote host
Only fixed packet size for now
uses network.obj, libini.obj and console.obj

NetCFG

This is a program I wrote to load the drivers.
The program detects all PCI network cards in your computer, and lets you load the appropriate driver for it.
You can run it with paramters 'F' to silently load first detected card,or parameter 'A' to load all cards

Netstat

This program allows you to read some variables from the stack.

nslookup

Commandline DNS client from CleverMouse
This program uses network.obj and console.obj

SynergyC

Software KM-switch, (Synergy - client) for windows/unix/.. versions, see http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
This version is compatible with version 1.3.1
Only mouse events are accepted in this first version
There is a bug in the loading of librarys wich might cause program to crash
uses network.obj, libini.obj and console.obj

Telnet

A new telnet client, based on the code of nslookup (usefull to test TCP code)
This program uses network.obj and console.obj

TFTPc

A TFTP client with a GUI.
Sending and receiving of files both work
uses libio.obj, network.obj and box_lib.obj

VNCclient

I am working on the re-make of my old VNC client

Zeroconf

This program is the newer version of what used to be 'autodhcp', it works with the new network API.

Libraries

network_lib

The network library for KolibriOS, written by Clevermouse.

I need your help!

I would really appreciate it if somebody could write some (or finish some of my) network applications,
So I can concentrate on kernel code now :),
If you are interessed please contact me at hidnplayr@kolibrios.org (or find me in #kolibrios on chat.freenode.net)