Re: [lwip-users] Overview of mboxes

[christiaan . simons]

address@hidden wrote on 29-11-2004
03:46:48:

> Just a little bit of a high level overview would be very helpful, I hope
to
> be able to dive in with such very appreciated help.

I'm unfimiliar with the sockets/netconn interface.
I guess this depends on your runtime environment,
some have threads, some don't. You can interface to
lwip using the PCB lists. We've created our own private
sockets layer on top of this.

You can use lwip in many different configurations since
it has very little dependencies.

> Related, I'm not clear on whether thread support, or when thread support,
is
> needed. Are there non-performance reasons (features?) for making
> thread support available? I'd like to use lwip as a network stack
> running in one process with other processes being able to use it for
> network communication, I don't know if this affects the answer to this
> question?

There is no requirement for using threads.
A process for lwip should work just fine.

Christiaan Simons

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Axon Digital Design

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