On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:54 -0400, Zeder, Stacy wrote: > 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?
I think what they're saying is the Altera port of lwIP is old and they don't support it anymore. lwIP itself has had a lot of development since they ported it to their hardware, and continues to do so. > Does lwIP have support for IPv6? Could this be the issue? Not really. There is some code, but it's incomplete and probably doesn't work. None of the current active developers have an interest in IPv6 (yet) and so it's not received much attention. I'd be happy if someone wanted to change this. > Or, are there other technical capabilities lwIP does not support that > commercial solutions might? That depends what you want to use it for. lwIP is very much aimed at low memory systems, so won't be the right choice for all projects, but it has more bells and whistles than you might first expect. The best thing to do is come up with a list of requirements and see if lwIP meets those, as such an open-ended question is hard to answer. Hope that helps, Kieran _______________________________________________ lwip-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-users
