Okay got it. Thank you and Simon again :)

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, 14:20 Sergio R. Caprile, <scapr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You got things a bit confused.
> lwIP is not a computer OS nor a device, is a TCP/IP stack. It provides
> sevices for layer-3+. If you donĀ“t need what rests over IP nor IP
> itself, then you don't need lwIP.
> Yes, you can use lwIP's "infrastructure" and have layer-2 protocols
> coexist with the stack, you can even use the netifs by themselves and
> forget about "the other part" of lwIP, taking advantage of pbufs and
> existing Ethernet drivers.
> If you need to read the bytes in Ethernet headers, you work at the netif
> level. If you need two MACs on a physical port, you bridge them.
> Regarding lwIP's take on raw sockets, this has been answered by Simon
> several years ago. I don't think it has changed:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lwip-users/2011-11/msg00080.html
>
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