What I read awhile back was MS licensed from BSDi their TCP/IP stack for use
in W2K.

Steve B.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jordan Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?


> I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as
> to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user
> utilities, and though it's always been "common knowledge" in the
> community that they were, when I set about to "prove" it I found it to
> be less easy than I'd thought.  I've strings'd various binaries and
> DLLs in my copy of Windows 98 but have yet to find anything resembling
> proof.  Does anyone out there have any details or discovery techniques
> for confirming or disproving this assertion either way?  It would be
> very useful (for us) from a PR standpoint to know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Jordan
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