Re: [lwip-users] Graceful shutdown

[Ben Schwartz]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:53 AM address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 18.01.2019 um 23:19 schrieb Ben Schwartz:
> Hi lwIP,
>
> According to a message from a long time ago [1], there's no way to
> perform a graceful shutdown of an lwIP instance.  Is that still true?

Yes, that's still true.

However, by now I have changed my mind. There are more and more people
using lwIP outside its original target - small microcontrollers. In
small microcontrollers, it made sense to not support shutdown. However,
I think by now it might be worth a try to implement such a shutdown, as
long as it doesn't grow size for small microcontroller usage.

Cool, thanks for considering this.  I've opened an issue to track this feature: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?55598

 

Regards,
Simon

> For context, I'm currently working with an executable that, on startup,
> calls lwip_init(), netif_set_up(), netif_set_link_up(),
> netif_set_default(), tcp_bind_to_netif(), tcp_bind_netif(),
> tcp_listen(), and tcp_accept().  On completion, the process terminates
> without unwinding any of these steps.  I'm trying to convert this
> executable into a library that could be started, stopped, and started again.
>
> Is there a recommended pattern for stopping and restarting lwIP?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Schwartz
>
> [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-users/2010-03/msg00210.html

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