From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   Jorgen Grahn  wrote:   
   > You all bought the stack from somewhere?  I assumed at least Sun had   
   > enough IP hackers to write one from scratch, or one based off of   
   > whatever they already had running. "The network is the computer",   
   > and all.   
      
   The Solaris 2 TCP/IP stack was certainly based on Mentat.  HP-UX got   
   its Mentat-based stack a bit later (first shipped with HP-UX 11.0)   
   That is why both HP-UX and Solaris have ndd and a very similar set of   
   ndd settings.  It has always been my understanding that Sun did a "one   
   time" of the Mentat stack and started hacking from there but that may   
   simply be because I noticed after they may (or may not) have split.   
   HP maintained a continuing relationship (tracking Mentat "upstream")   
   through Mentat's purchase by Packeteer, then somewhere after that   
   (perhaps after Packeteer was itself purchased by Blue Coat?) brought   
   it fully in-house.  I have often referred to the Solaris and HP-UX   
   networking stacks as "cousins."   
      
   Web searching for "Mentat TCP/IP" or "Mentat Hewlett-Packard" etc will   
   find some of the interesting, related links:   
      
   http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mentat+Announces+Networking+Techno   
   ogy+Agreement+with+HP%3B+HP+Licenses...-a020788508   
      
   http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Mentat-SkyX/689744294   
      
   rick jones   
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