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Re: [lwip-users] LwIP for Redhat Linux Verion 2.4
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Kieran Mansley |
Subject: |
Re: [lwip-users] LwIP for Redhat Linux Verion 2.4 |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:30:42 +0100 (BST) |
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Srivastava Amit (IFIN DC SMS) wrote:
> Hi All,
> I would like to know if anyone has hooked LwIP to the drivers of the
> Linux. I could not find any such registration API for the driver.Any update
> in this regards would be appreciated.
Not quite sure what you mean, but lwIP isn't really designed to be run as
a driver or in the kernel. Instead you link it with the application you
wish to use lwIP, and the TCP/IP stack then runs at user level. The
standard way of getting packets (in unix) to the kernel is through the
TUN/TAP driver.
In theory it would be possible to make a kernel module of lwIP that would
interface with the network card directly. This would require a little
extra code though, and I'm not aware of anyone who is working on this.
Kieran