Re: Question on ELKS networking maturity

On 2017-02-20 6:49 AM, Marc-François LUCCA-DANIAU wrote:
> I made the assumption at the beginning that ELKS was reasonably mature
> on networking, but obviously I was wrong, and have to revise my
> development plan.
ELKS networking was never remotely mature. It was written to use SLIP 
and as far as I can tell it was only ever minimally functional. Given 
the show-stopping bugs fixed in the past three years, it makes sense 
that networking would be put to the side. When something as simple as 
logging in after logging out freezes the entire system, that's a much 
bigger priority than networking support. There has also been a general 
lack of working network hardware available for would-be network devs to 
test on. I once got a NE2K-compliant 8-bit ISA card but then the 8086 PC 
it was going to go into blew up.

At one time I'm sure the network programs were working, but it would be 
safe to assume they are working at "proof-of-concept" quality only.

Assume everything on the network side was test code cobbled together and 
abandoned; that's basically how it has worked out.

-Jody