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.
• 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.