Has anyone ponied up to the update of TCP/IP yet?

[asporner at googlemail.com (Andrew Sporner)]

Hi,

I just made contact with Ralf, who had previous been doing this kind
of thing.  I am eager to do this and from the direction the conversation
went, he was on board with this.

Currently they are using FreeBSD as a TCP/IP stack and would like
to continue this based on my discussion.  There are opportunities to
modernize aspects of the stack in this regard.  For my part the first
priority would be to bring over what exists in the 7.0 production (I think
it is the latest) and merge it into what is present on RTEMS.

It may be that there will be more functionality that would initially be
tapped by "user space", but as long as the basic functions are present
and it works, would satisfy the first phase of this.

I don't know how NetBSD and FreeBSD differ on this or even if there
is overlap on the two.  I have seen bizarre USB devices that do a lot
of things (even ethernet cards!).

I don't claim expertise on USB, but from what I do know if it, it is more
or less a "plug and pray" framework whereby devices can be attached
and detached dynamically.