FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Alternative stacks (was: Re: Status)

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ville Koskinen <vrkosk@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, now that you're thinking of alternatives, here's something I
> mentioned to Axel last month in passing: 
> 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/
> 
> lwIP, short for "lightweight TCP/IP stack" is a miniature
> implementation of IPv4, IPv6, ICMP, UDP, TCP, PPP, DHCP, and ARP, 
> with
> an optional BSD-like interface. (I haven't perused the code, so I 
> don't
> know if they implement full IPv6 with security features.) Yes, it is
> lightweight and could be considered incomplete from the Haiku
> viewpoint. However, I'm of the opinion that taking a light
> implementation, integrating it, and then adding features is easier 
> than
> taking a full-blown implementation and integrating it. This is 
> because
> the full-blown implementation tends to have more inertia, so to 
> speak. 

I had a short look at it, and while it doesn't look too bad, it's a 
relatively young stack and not really under heavy development. There is 
also quite a number of open bugs left we'd inherit from them.
So I would not really recommend looking at that implementation too 
deeply (although it can be another source to look at).

Bye,
   Axel.