Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Ben Hutchings, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 00:37:48 +0000, wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 00:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 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?

But the kernel-provided stack can't be manipulated by userland for
e.g. VPNs, ppp, etc. without having to be root.

Actually, there is already an old lwipv6 in the archive, used by umview
and vdetelweb. Hopefully this updated version will be usable by them and
we can get rid of the old version.

> (At least Linux and FreeBSD do; I don't know about Hurd.)

Hurd does use an old Linux stack. It can make use of liblwip instead.

Samuel