# OpenBeOS Network Kit: The Shared Libraries

- ## The libnet.so shared library

  Location: `src/kits/network/libnet`

  This shared library is the way BeOS R5 provide the sockets POSIX/BSD API to apps. Being binary compatible with R5 make this library implementation tedious.

- ## The libnetapi.so shared library

  Location: `src/kits/network/libnetapi`

  This shared library contains thin C++ classes wrapping the C sockets POSIX/BSD API into these BNet* classes we're used under BeOS: look at them in your BeBook

###### Philippe Houdoin, May 17th, 2003