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GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch
From: |
Joshua Branson |
Subject: |
GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch |
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2018 18:16:30 -0400 |
>From 6fe963a6ed30de1b3162bf4a767478b6a161fb1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 09:53:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] * community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
I mentioned that lwip was recently ported to the hurd.
---
community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
index 6410dee0..61831668 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ is included in the section entitled
The Hurd presently uses a [[TCP/IP_stack|hurd/translator/pfinet]] based on
code from an old Linux version.
This works, but lacks some rather important features (like PPP/PPPoE), and the
-design is not hurdish at all.
+design is not hurdish at all. Recently lwip, which is an userspace tcp/ip
library,
+was ported to the Hurd. It is possible to use lwip as a complete replacement
for pfinit.
+However lwip does not provide device drivers for ethernet or wireless chips.
+To use lwip on real hardware, one would also need device drivers to access the
internet.
A true hurdish network stack will use a set of [[hurd/translator]] processes,
each implementing a different protocol layer. This way not only the
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2.17.0
- GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch,
Joshua Branson <=
- Re: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Joan Lledó, 2018/05/05
- Re: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Joshua Branson, 2018/05/05
- Re: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Joshua Branson, 2018/05/05
- Message not available
- Fwd: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Joan Lledó, 2018/05/07
- Re: Fwd: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Joshua Branson, 2018/05/08
- Re: Fwd: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Samuel Thibault, 2018/05/27
- Re: Fwd: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch, Joshua Branson, 2018/05/28