[lwip-users] a beginners questions about lwip, sockets and threads

[ake . forslund]

Hi,

I've just started porting lwip to our
platform and I have run in to some slight problems and I hope this is the
right mailing list for these kind of questions (if it isn't please redirect
me to a more suitable place)

I've gotten the porting layer in place
and the my lwip_init() has stopped complaining about my timeouts. The next
step as I figure is to test the socket-API using the loopback interface.

My questions are:
1. Can I use threads? One to receive
and one to transmit data and then check if the data arrives correctly?
2. Should I use TCP or UDP-sockets (SOCK_STREAM/SOCK_DGRAM)
3. Are the unit tests for porting or
for the developers of the stack? (I've looked for info on this but I haven't
found an answer yet)
4. I'm currently running 1.3.2 is there
any reason to upgrade to 1.4.0 besides the new number?

I've already tried to start thread-to-thread-communication
with sockets but I'm quite inexperienced when it comes to working with
sockets so I might have done some trivial mistake. My init sequence and
socket-code can be found here: http://pastebin.com/ScSZ7fYK
if anyone has a slow afternoon and feel like nitpicking =)

Thanks in advance.

Best regards
/Åke Forslund

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