On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Guy Hagen wrote:

> I remember that some time ago, a call had been made on this list for a
> common-use library of network code and algorithms, perhaps in Java or XML.
> Since I ran across such an animal for graph drawing (at least according to
> Researchindex.org), I thought I'd share:
>

Incidentally, I have been working on a couple of projects in this
vein.  I've posted about one of these (a library of network routines in
the S language) before (it's at http://legba.hss.cmu.edu/R.stuff), but I
am also working on another one which is implemented in C.  This -- being
less far along -- isn't something I've advertised very widely, but in case
you're interested you can find the latest alpha version at

http://legba.hss.cmu.edu/netstat

The NetStat library is ultimately intended to be just that -- a library to
which others' applications may be linked.  Right now, you can still
compile against it, but it's not technically a "library" in the usual
sense (it compiles to a collection of object files).  Some sample
applications are distributed with NetStat, which provide some clues as to
how the API works; there's also a fair amount of code documentation
included.  The entire NetStat package is distributed under the LGPL, so it
is freely available for others to use.  I caution, however, that the
project is still in a very primitive state (caveat emptor): this
certaintly isn't something for the end user to go grab, but an adventurous
(or desperate? ;-)) coder might want to give it a go.

     -Carter