Re: [lwip-users] ip forward and pbuf corruption

[Kieran Mansley]

On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 11:57 -0800, Tyrel Newton wrote:
> > The way that you are using the pbufs is a little unusual.  Which API
> are you using to lwIP?  Or are you modifying lwIP internally to get
> the forwarding behaviour?
> 
> Why is this unusual pbuf usage? I am using the tcpip thread (netconn
> api), so the re-transmission of the IP frames should be happening from
> the context of the tcpip thread. The IP forwarding is provided
> inherently by the ipv4 code (in the ip_forward function).

Using ip_forward() is unusual.  Most people are using lwIP as an
endpoint, and so has no need to forward.

Kieran