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Re: about tcp/ip


ylyuan wrote:
> 
> Hi,who can tell me  whether the tcp protocol on eCos has independent thread to deal with the input from ip layer ?

eCos has a separate thread to deal with incoming ethernet packets (and
thence IP and TCP[1] before delivering to any waiting application thread.
But there is no separate thread for dealing with IP versus TCP.

Jifl

[1] or UDP, ARP, bridge packets, etc.
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