| 1 | INTRODUCTION
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| 2 |
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| 3 | lwIP is a small independent implementation of the TCP/IP protocol
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| 4 | suite that has been developed by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and
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| 5 | Networks Architectures (CNA) lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer
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| 6 | Science (SICS).
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| 7 |
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| 8 | The focus of the lwIP TCP/IP implementation is to reduce the RAM usage
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| 9 | while still having a full scale TCP. This making lwIP suitable for use
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| 10 | in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for
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| 11 | around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | FEATURES
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| 14 |
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| 15 | * IP (Internet Protocol) including packet forwarding over multiple network
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| 16 | interfaces
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| 17 | * ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) for network maintenance and debugging
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| 18 | * IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) for multicast traffic management
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| 19 | * UDP (User Datagram Protocol) including experimental UDP-lite extensions
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| 20 | * TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) with congestion control, RTT estimation
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| 21 | and fast recovery/fast retransmit
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| 22 | * Specialized raw/native API for enhanced performance
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| 23 | * Optional Berkeley-like socket API
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| 24 | * DNS (Domain names resolver)
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| 25 | * SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
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| 26 | * DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
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| 27 | * AUTOIP (for IPv4, conform with RFC 3927)
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| 28 | * PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
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| 29 | * ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) for Ethernet
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| 30 |
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| 31 | LICENSE
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| 32 |
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| 33 | lwIP is freely available under a BSD license.
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| 34 |
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| 35 | DEVELOPMENT
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| 36 |
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| 37 | lwIP has grown into an excellent TCP/IP stack for embedded devices,
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| 38 | and developers using the stack often submit bug fixes, improvements,
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| 39 | and additions to the stack to further increase its usefulness.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Development of lwIP is hosted on Savannah, a central point for
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| 42 | software development, maintenance and distribution. Everyone can
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| 43 | help improve lwIP by use of Savannah's interface, CVS and the
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| 44 | mailing list. A core team of developers will commit changes to the
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| 45 | CVS source tree.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | The lwIP TCP/IP stack is maintained in the 'lwip' CVS module and
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| 48 | contributions (such as platform ports) are in the 'contrib' module.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | See doc/savannah.txt for details on CVS server access for users and
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| 51 | developers.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Last night's CVS tar ball can be downloaded from:
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| 54 | http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs.backups/lwip.tar.gz [CHANGED - NEEDS FIXING]
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| 55 |
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| 56 | The current CVS trees are web-browsable:
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| 57 | http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lwip/lwip/
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| 58 | http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lwip/contrib/
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| 59 |
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| 60 | Submit patches and bugs via the lwIP project page:
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| 61 | http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/
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| 62 |
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| 63 |
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| 64 | DOCUMENTATION
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| 65 |
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| 66 | The original out-dated homepage of lwIP and Adam Dunkels' papers on
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| 67 | lwIP are at the official lwIP home page:
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| 68 | http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/
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| 69 |
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| 70 | Self documentation of the source code is regularly extracted from the
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| 71 | current CVS sources and is available from this web page:
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| 72 | http://www.nongnu.org/lwip/
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| 73 |
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| 74 | There is now a constantly growin wiki about lwIP at
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| 75 | http://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/LwIP_Wiki
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| 76 |
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| 77 | Also, there are mailing lists you can subscribe at
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| 78 | http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=lwip
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| 79 | plus searchable archives:
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| 80 | http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-users/
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| 81 | http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-devel/
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| 82 |
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| 83 | Reading Adam's papers, the files in docs/, browsing the source code
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| 84 | documentation and browsing the mailing list archives is a good way to
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| 85 | become familiar with the design of lwIP.
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| 86 |
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| 87 | Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se>
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| 88 | Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmx.net>
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