From 0a06ae836cdd17eb000d6087cfcf96bab5851617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:25:10 -0400 Subject: I created a new lwip translator page. It is bare minimum, and it probably is not completely accurate about how to start the translator. --- hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn') diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn index bf535b21..1f4f7e39 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn @@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +Pfinet is a TCP/IP stack from an old linux version. It works but lacks some important +features like PPP/PPPoE. Recently Recently [[hurd/translator/lwip]], which is +an userspace tcp/ip library, was ported to the Hurd, which can serve as a direct +replacement for pfinet. + To configure Internet connectivity, the `pfinet` (*Protocol Family Internet*) [[translator]] must be configured. This is done using the [[`settrans`|settrans]] command, for example like this: -- cgit v1.2.3