Axel Dörfler is reporting that the work on the networking stack is slow and steadily going forward. UDP and IPv4 protocols are mostly done, and TCP can now send out data, but receiving data is still not implemented.

Current work is concentrated on getting TCP ready, and to implement a network server. This server is responsible for configuring the stack when it's started, and to take over inetd services and similar things that can or even should live in userland.

Once the foundation is done, we're moving on to fill in some holes, like an UI for configuring the stack, and porting our existing PPP solution to the new stack. A network stack might be the Christmas gift to the Haiku community.