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GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch


From: Joshua Branson
Subject: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch
Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 18:16:30 -0400

>From 6fe963a6ed30de1b3162bf4a767478b6a161fb1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 09:53:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] * community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn

I mentioned that lwip was recently ported to the hurd.
---
 community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn 
b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
index 6410dee0..61831668 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ is included in the section entitled
 
 The Hurd presently uses a [[TCP/IP_stack|hurd/translator/pfinet]] based on 
code from an old Linux version.
 This works, but lacks some rather important features (like PPP/PPPoE), and the
-design is not hurdish at all.
+design is not hurdish at all.  Recently lwip, which is an userspace tcp/ip 
library,
+was ported to the Hurd.  It is possible to use lwip as a complete replacement 
for pfinit.
+However lwip does not provide device drivers for ethernet or wireless chips.
+To use lwip on real hardware, one would also need device drivers to access the 
internet.
 
 A true hurdish network stack will use a set of [[hurd/translator]] processes,
 each implementing a different protocol layer. This way not only the
-- 
2.17.0




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