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+INTRODUCTION
+
+lwIP is a small independent implementation of the TCP/IP protocol
+suite that has been developed by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and
+Networks Architectures (CNA) lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer
+Science (SICS).
+
+The focus of the lwIP TCP/IP implementation is to reduce the RAM usage
+while still having a full scale TCP. This making lwIP suitable for use
+in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for
+around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.
+
+
+FEATURES
+
+  * IP (Internet Protocol, IPv4 and IPv6) including packet forwarding over
+    multiple network interfaces
+  * ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) for network maintenance and debugging
+  * IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) for multicast traffic management
+  * MLD (Multicast listener discovery for IPv6). Aims to be compliant with 
+    RFC 2710. No support for MLDv2
+  * ND (Neighbor discovery and stateless address autoconfiguration for IPv6).
+    Aims to be compliant with RFC 4861 (Neighbor discovery) and RFC 4862
+    (Address autoconfiguration)
+  * UDP (User Datagram Protocol) including experimental UDP-lite extensions
+  * TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) with congestion control, RTT estimation
+    and fast recovery/fast retransmit
+  * raw/native API for enhanced performance
+  * Optional Berkeley-like socket API
+  * DNS (Domain names resolver)
+
+
+APPLICATIONS
+
+  * HTTP server with SSI and CGI
+  * SNMPv2c agent with MIB compiler (Simple Network Management Protocol)
+  * SNTP (Simple network time protocol)
+
+
+LICENSE
+
+lwIP is freely available under a BSD license.
+
+
+DEVELOPMENT
+
+lwIP has grown into an excellent TCP/IP stack for embedded devices,
+and developers using the stack often submit bug fixes, improvements,
+and additions to the stack to further increase its usefulness.
+
+Development of lwIP is hosted on Savannah, a central point for
+software development, maintenance and distribution. Everyone can
+help improve lwIP by use of Savannah's interface, Git and the
+mailing list. A core team of developers will commit changes to the
+Git source tree.
+
+The lwIP TCP/IP stack is maintained in the 'lwip' Git module and
+contributions (such as platform ports) are in the 'contrib' Git module.
+
+See doc/savannah.txt for details on Git server access for users and
+developers.
+
+The current Git trees are web-browsable:
+  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git
+  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip/lwip-contrib.git
+
+Submit patches and bugs via the lwIP project page:
+  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/
+
+Continuous integration builds (GCC, clang):
+  https://travis-ci.org/yarrick/lwip-merged
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+
+Self documentation of the source code is regularly extracted from the current
+Git sources and is available from this web page:
+  http://www.nongnu.org/lwip/
+
+There is now a constantly growin wiki about lwIP at
+  http://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/LwIP_Wiki
+
+Also, there are mailing lists you can subscribe at
+  http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=lwip
+plus searchable archives:
+  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-users/
+  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-devel/
+
+lwIP was originally written by Adam Dunkels:
+  http://dunkels.com/adam/
+
+Reading Adam's papers, the files in docs/, browsing the source code
+documentation and browsing the mailing list archives is a good way to
+become familiar with the design of lwIP.
+
+Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se>
+Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmx.net>