Hawknl is a free, open source, game oriented network api.

hawknl (nl) is a fairly low level api, a wrapper over berkeley/unix sockets and winsock. but nl also provides other features including support for:
* multiple operating systems.
* groups of sockets
* socket statistics
* high accuracy timer
* crc functions
* macros to read and write data to packets with endian conversion
* multiple network transports.
this package contains the development libraries and headers.