Re: [lwip-users] flow of lwip as a stream client

[Bill Auerbach]

It seems from reading this discussion that perhaps tcp_recved is badly
named.  It's not that it's been received but that it's been processed.  I
would think tcp_processed (or similar) would convey a better meaning as to
what this function is accomplishing.

>-----Original Message-----
>Calling tcp_recved() gives the server permission to send more data, so
>you can use this to throttle the server. The server will never send more
>data than fits into the TCP window, so if you implement this correctly,
>you will *never* get more data than you can buffer. The only requirement
>here is that sizeof(your_buffer) >= TCP_WND.