[ECOS] eCos host tools for Cygwin - 120425 snapshot builds

[ECOS] eCos host tools for Cygwin - 120425 snapshot builds

[John Dallaway]

The prebuilt eCos host tools for Cygwin provided within the eCos 3.0
release do not work with recent Cygwin installations due to their
reliance on tcl84.dll. In response to this, I have generated new builds
of the tools which use libtcl8.5.dll. The new tools are built from
current eCos CVS sources and should otherwise exhibit the same behaviour
as the previous snapshot builds of 2011-02-09.

The new snapshot builds for Cygwin can be downloaded from the eCos ftp
site and are located in the "anoncvs" directory:

  anoncvs/ecos-tools-bin-120425.cygwin.tar.bz2

Please use a mirror site in your own geographical region to access these
files. Sites which mirror the eCos ftp area are listed at:

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/mirror.html

The eCos host tools may be extracted into the current working directory
from the downloaded archive file by using the following command at a
bash prompt:

  tar jxvf ecos-tools-bin-120425.cygwin.tar.bz2

If you are using an older Cygwin installation which does not include
libtcl8.5.dll, you should stick with the eCos host tools provided with
eCos 3.0 or with the snapshot builds of 2011-02-09.

Feedback on any remaining compatibility issues is welcome. Please report
any issues at:

  http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org

John Dallaway
eCos maintainer
http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john

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[ECOS] General question on TCP/IP stability and security vulnerabilities

[Mikhail Matusov]

Could someone please comment on the following criticism found in Wikipedia:

The FreeBSD TCP/IP network stack port included with eCos is out of 
date—circa 2001—and exposes systems using such to numerous security and 
stability vulnerabilities (FreeBSD RELENG 4 4 0 RELEASE for IPv4 and 
FreeBSD's origin KAME for IPv6). Official eCos maintainers do not appear to 
monitor FreeBSD or KAME for security or stability updates, but rather rely 
on minimal and insufficient bug reports from users of eCos.
The SNMP package is rudimentary at best, once again, apparently due to its 
age.

Is a more robust TCP/IP stack for eCos available at cost?

Thanks,
/Mikhail


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