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lwIP - lightweight TCP/IP

lwIP is a light-weight implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite that was originally written by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and Networks Architectures (CNA) lab of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science but now is being actively developed by a team of developers distributed world-wide currently administered by Simon Goldschmidt and Dirk Ziegelmeier. The development homepage has the latest news and releases:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip

lwIP is freely available (under a BSD-style license) in C source code format and can be downloaded from the development homepage.

The focus of the lwIP TCP/IP implementation is to reduce the RAM usage while still having a full scale TCP. This makes lwIP suitable for use in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.

Since its release, lwIP has spurred a lot of interest and is today being used in many commercial products. lwIP has been ported to multiple platforms and operating systems and can be run either with or without an underlying OS.

lwIP includes the following protocols and features:

IP (Internet Protocol) including packet forwarding over multiple network interfaces
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) for network maintenance and debugging
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) for multicast traffic management
UDP (User Datagram Protocol) including experimental UDP-lite extensions
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) with congestion control, RTT estimation and fast recovery/fast retransmit
Raw/native API for enhanced performance
Optional Berkeley-like socket API
DNS (Domain names resolver)
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
AUTOIP (for IPv4, conform with RFC 3927)
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) for Ethernet

Getting started

If you are new to lwIP, we recommend that you read one of the following manuals:

lwIP Application Developers Manual, if you are new to lwIP or are trying to build an application on top of an already installed lwIP installation
lwIP Platform Developers Manual, if you are trying to make lwIP work on your platform, with your OS, and your device driver
lwIP Developers Manual, if you would like to delve into the innards of lwIP
Available device drivers, to see if there is a prewritten driver available for your hardware

The following links may also be useful:

The lwIP Savannah site, and the following subpages:
- git source via web
- contrib git source via web
- the bug tracker
- the mailing lists (be sure to join before writing to the lists)
"Design and Implementation of the lwIP TCP/IP Stack" (obsolete, but good starting point)

lwIP Application Developers Manual

Audience
Introduction to lwIP
Protocols
- Link and network protocols
- Transport protocols
- High level protocols
  - DHCP
  - DNS
Application API layers
lwIP with or without an operating system
Sample lwIP applications
- Sample Web Server
lwIP and multithreading
lwIP IPv4/IPv6 stacks
Initializing lwIP
Configuring lwIP
Reporting bugs
Further lwIP support

lwIP Platform Developers Manual

Audience
Getting the code
Creating a platform
- Porting for an OS (sys_arch.c/h, cc.h)
- Writing a device driver (netif,ethernetif...)
Debugging lwIP

lwIP Developers Manual

Audience
Contributing to lwIP
lwIP modules (files, directories...)
- lwIP functions documentation (PDF file)
- lwIP functions documentation (HTML)
Architectural flow charts
- Architectural Rx flow (PDF file)
Debugging lwIP

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 {{HeadingA|lwIP - lightweight TCP/IP}}
-lwIP is a light-weight implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite that was originally written by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and Networks Architectures (CNA) lab of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science but now is being actively developed by a team of developers distributed world-wide headed by Kieran Mansley. The development homepage has the latest news and releases:
+[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|left|121px]]lwIP is a light-weight implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite that was originally written by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and Networks Architectures (CNA) lab of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science but now is being actively developed by a team of developers distributed world-wide currently administered by Simon Goldschmidt and Dirk Ziegelmeier. The development homepage has the latest news and releases:
 [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip]
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 The focus of the lwIP TCP/IP implementation is to reduce the RAM usage while still having a full scale TCP. This makes lwIP suitable for use in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.
-Since it's release, lwIP has spurred a lot of interest and is today being used in many commercial products. lwIP has been ported to multiple platforms and operating systems and can be run either with or without an underlying OS.
+Since its release, lwIP has spurred a lot of interest and is today being used in many commercial products. lwIP has been ported to multiple platforms and operating systems and can be run either with or without an underlying OS.
 lwIP includes the following protocols and features:
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 * [[IP]] (Internet Protocol) including packet forwarding over multiple network interfaces
 * [[ICMP]] (Internet Control Message Protocol) for network maintenance and debugging
 * [[IGMP]] (Internet Group Management Protocol) for multicast traffic management
 * [[UDP]] (User Datagram Protocol) including experimental UDP-lite extensions
 * [[TCP]] (Transmission Control Protocol) with congestion control, RTT estimation and fast recovery/fast retransmit
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 * [[lwIP Application Developers Manual]], if you are new to lwIP or are trying to build an application on top of an already installed lwIP installation
 * [[lwIP Platform Developers Manual]], if you are trying to make lwIP work on your platform, with your OS, and your device driver
 * [[lwIP Developers Manual]], if you would like to delve into the innards of lwIP
+* [[Available device drivers]], to see if there is a prewritten driver available for your hardware
 The following links may also be useful:
 * [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip The lwIP Savannah site], and the following subpages:
-** [http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/?root=lwip CVS source via web]
+** [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git git source via web]
+** [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip/lwip-contrib.git contrib git source via web]
 ** [http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=lwip the bug tracker]
-** [http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=lwip the mailing lists]
+** [http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=lwip the mailing lists] (be sure to join before writing to the lists)
+* [http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~cmpe401/fall2004/labs/docs/lwip.pdf "Design and Implementation of the lwIP TCP/IP Stack"] (obsolete, but good starting point)
-* [http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/ Adam Dunkel's site about lwIP]
-* [http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/doc/lwip.pdf "Design and Implementation of the lwIP TCP/IP Stack"] (obsolete, but good start point)
 {{HeadingA|Further reading}}
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 ** [[lwIP version 1.3.0 release notes]]
 ** [[lwIP version 1.3.1 release notes]]
+** [[lwIP version 1.3.2 release notes]]
+** [[lwIP version 1.4.0 release notes]]
 * [[Project roadmap]] - ideas for the future of lwIP
 * [[Projects that use lwIP]] - applications and projects that use lwIP
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 #* [[Socket API]]
 # [[lwIP with or without an operating system]]
+# [[Sample lwIP applications]]
+#* [[Sample Web Server]]
 # [[lwIP and multithreading]]
 # [[lwIP IPv4/IPv6 stacks]]
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 #* [[lwipopts.h]]
 #* [[lwIP code size]]
+#* [[Maximizing throughput]]
 #* [[Tuning TCP]]
 #* [[Custom memory pools]]