Re: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch

[Joshua Branson]

>From 4dd72f771e28ce482027a3ff05c0b2a86b3cd7b5 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.
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 community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 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..b95a0d61 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn
@@ -12,7 +12,14 @@ 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.  If you are only using an ethernet connection, then it 
is possible to use
+lwip as a complete replacement for pfinet.  However, lwip uses the netdde 
device
+drivers for wireless chips, which are old drivers from an old version of 
linux. To use
+lwip for a wifi connection on more modern hardware, one would also need modern
+device drivers to access the internet.  The promising approach to this is using
+a rump kernel.  This is essentially the New Driver Framework google summer of
+code project idea.
 
 A true hurdish network stack will use a set of [[hurd/translator]] processes,
 each implementing a different protocol layer. This way not only the
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