On May 23, 2013, at 10:34 AM, "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013 18:40:38 +0200 > Antti Kantee <pooka at iki.fi> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I like the opportunities that a technology like DPDK enables, and I felt >> that the availability of an open source TCP/IP stack for DPDK could using >> real hardware and a 82599 NIC. > > Already done several times before. > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/ > https://code.google.com/p/tcp-ip-in-user-space/ > http://www.ohloh.net/p/tcp-ip-in-user-space > http://www.ioremap.net/projects/unetstack > http://www.joerch.org/tcpip/ > http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.167.2757 > Of course. And many more times than that. This is one more option for us and it is BSD licensed. Ultimately, we will probably need a TCP stack in there.
