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Re: [lwip-devel] Lwip as a router
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Simon Goldschmidt |
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Re: [lwip-devel] Lwip as a router |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:32:17 +0100 |
Ghobad Emadi wrote:
> Hi everyone,I needed to use lwip as a router last month and when I searched
> on Google I understood that a lot of people want to use it as a router.
> I have deployed Lwip to use as a router. How can I add this feature to Lwip?
Shouldn't this just work when IP_FORWARDING is enabled? Extended routing
capabilites would be missing, but simple routing with a default gateway should
work, I think.
What did you need to add to make it work for you?
> Moreover, is it a useful thing?
In general, we suggest to not use lwIP as a router, since it has been designed
for devices, not for networking components where possible failure could disable
a whole network. It should work anyway, but if I were to design a router, I'd
rather use a more full-blown OS like a BSD or linux...
Simon