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For NT 3.1, Microsoft purchased a TCP/IP stack from Spider Systems[0]. It's not clear how much of that code was based on BSD's TCP/IP stack. Microsoft wrote the
by p_ing 2y ago
For NT 3.1, Microsoft purchased a TCP/IP stack from Spider Systems[0]. It's not clear how much of that code was based on BSD's TCP/IP stack. Microsoft wrote their own TCP/IP stack for NT 3.5.[1]
Microsoft did leverage BSD code for common network utilities (ping, tracert, ftp, etc.), which still exist in Windows today, although Microsoft's preference is to leverage the "better" equivalent PowerShell cmdlets where available.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Systems
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151229084950/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/6/19/05641/7357 https://web.archive.org/web/20151229084950/http://www.kuro5h...
EDIT: If you want to hunt for BSD code, try taking a look at NT4[2].
[2] https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0/tree/master/private/ntos/tdi/tcpip https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0/tree/master/private/ntos/...
- pjmlp 2y agoThe BSD TCP/IP stack went away when Vista was released, it is long gone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_networking_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_networking_techn...
- p_ing 2y agoFor one, we don't know if it was "BSD TCP/IP" stack, just that the stack purchased from Spider was licensed as such, two, that stack went away with NT 3.5.