There was a great primer on embedded Linux boards by Jay Carlson a couple weeks ago that touched on the network limitations and various tradeoffs that devices i

There was a great primer on embedded Linux boards by Jay Carlson a couple weeks ago that touched on the network limitations and various tradeoffs that devices in this class need to make: https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/ https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/ In summary, if you can't have your IoT device plugged into the wall, or connected by a "crazy" 802.15.4 low-power serial wireless network to a hub device that is, and especially if you have BOM cost constraints, battery life requirements, or processing needs that mean you can't use Linux or lwIP, you're going to have a bad time.