[dpdk-dev] announcing rump kernel TCP/IP stack for DPDK

[Robert Bays]

On May 23, 2013, at 10:34 AM, "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2013 18:40:38 +0200
> Antti Kantee <pooka at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I like the opportunities that a technology like DPDK enables, and I felt 
>> that the availability of an open source TCP/IP stack for DPDK could  using real hardware and a 82599 NIC.
> 
> 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
> 

Of course.  And many more times than that.  This is one more option for us and it is BSD licensed.

Ultimately, we will probably need a TCP stack in there.