I've integrated the networking code into the rest of teh code base (it was a bit chunkier than expected) and have carefully intervowen tis wit the rest.
Things are compiling cleanly, I think (will have to do another test) and unless there are objections, I am feeling fairly ready to check the whole chunk in.
Yes, it touches scarily many parts of the code-base outside the "network*.lisp" files (hooks into the scheduler, into the graphing and a few more places). Shouldn't make a blind bit of difference unless you have network connections.
//Ingvar