Networking Services Guide
Networking Services provides a standard framework for accessing network services and actual implementations of network protocols. The components of the Networking Services are closely related to the framework provided by the Communications Framework module.
- Network Protocols
This collection is a set of plugins to the Sockets Server. The plugins implement network protocols. The network protcocols can be accessed through a sockets type interface.
- Network Security
Network Security is the set of components that provide security
protocols for an IP connection.
- Network Control
This collection contains plugins which implement the Control plane part of a Network Layer protocol. These include the Connection Provider and Sub-connection Providers for the Quality of Service protocol and the Internet Protocol.
- TCP/IP Utilities
This section describes the TCP/IP Utilities collection of components,
which provides libraries used by TCP/IPv4/v6 PRT for the DNS and DHCP protocols.
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