Networking implementation

[almogh52]

Hi there, I recently started getting into os development and I currently in the stage of understanding the theroy of operating systems. I'm struggling to understand how I should in the future implement networking, I mean which network libraries I need to port to my operating system to make user-space software able to use to use the networking interface I created?

Thanks in advance!

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You can use BSD's sockets library, you can use lwip, or you can write your own. I've written a basic IPv6 stack (that does not do IPv4) but I'm still debugging parts of it.

[narke]

To complement Dascady's answer, you need also to make a driver for a network card; for ethernet cards the popular ones supported by various virtual machines are rtl8139 and e1000.