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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] announcing rump kernel TCP/IP stack for DPDK
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On Thu, 23 May 2013 20:46:02 +0200
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi> wrote:

> On 23.05.2013 19:34, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Already done several times before.
> >   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/
> >   https://code.google.com/p/tcp-ip-in-user-space/
> >   http://www.ohloh.net/p/tcp-ip-in-user-space
> >   http://www.ioremap.net/projects/unetstack
> >   http://www.joerch.org/tcpip/
> >   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.167.2757
> 
> I'm aware of the paper you linked given that I wrote it.  I don't agree 
> that it supports your claim "already done several times before".

I was more worried about multiple different TCP-IP stacks that seem
to be only used by small number of people and not maintained. Doing full
TCP/IP is hard, and there are lots of features inside.
It would be great to have one that is well supported and maintained.