On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 00:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> > > * Package name : lwip > Version : 2.0.3 > Upstream Author : Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se> > Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmx.net> > * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/ > * License : BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description : small independent implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite > > lwIP is a small independent implementation of the TCP/IP protocol > suite that has been developed by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and > Networks Architectures (CNA) lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer > Science (SICS). > > The focus of the lwIP TCP/IP implementation is to reduce the RAM usage > while still having a full scale TCP. This making lwIP suitable for use > in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for > around 40 kilobytes of code ROM. > > It can be used as a maintained user-land TCP/IP stack. Why would this be useful for Debian systems, which already have a much better performing TCP/IP stack? (At least Linux and FreeBSD do; I don't know about Hurd.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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