Re: [lwip-users] Choosing lwIP

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That's true: I think Altera has chosen the Interniche stack because they 
get support for it and don't have to do it on their own. Also, the 
Interniche stack has some upper-level protocols which are not included 
in lwIP (since lwIP focuses on the TCP/IP part of networking, not the 
upper-level protocols). But from what I can say (I evaluated the 
Interniche stack after Altera moved to it), I think technically, there 
is not that much difference: the only things I saw Interniche supports 
and we don't (YET!) are IPv6 and checksum-on-copy (which is under 
development in lwIP and I can't even remember if it was the Interniche 
stack which supported this...)

Anyway, I have to admit the lwIP stack has a hard time against the 
Interniche stack with Altera products, because you get the license for 
free when you buy Altera products and it is better integrated into the 
Altera IDE (Add-ons for Eclipse). But if you don't mind writing a bit 
more of your own code instead (to make up the 
Interniche-IDE-integration), lwIP is still a good competitor, of course! 
-> That's why I use it!

Simon


Pettinato, Jim wrote:
> With a bit of digging, it appears to me that Altera farmed out the 
> stack porting/maintenance task to interniche tecnologies, inc. - 
> TCP/IP networking is not Altera's core compentency so I can understand 
> the move. Now they don't have to worry about keeping up to date or 
> supporting issues with the stack software.
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> Behalf Of *Zeder, Stacy
> *Sent:* Monday, August 11, 2008 8:55 AM
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> *Subject:* [lwip-users] Choosing lwIP
>
> Folks…
>
> I’m looking into TCP/IP stacks and am very interested in lwIP. 
> However, on the Altera website, they do not recommend lwIP for new 
> development because they said it is legacy, or deprecated. Is this 
> true? Does anyone out there have any ideas of why they would say this? 
> Does lwIP have support for IPv6? Could this be the issue? And if lwIP 
> does not currently support IPv6, what is the schedule for developing 
> such support? Or, are there other technical capabilities lwIP does not 
> support that commercial solutions might?
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
>
> …Stacy
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