diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2312190..692b2e0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "netapp"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.5.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "async-trait",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dd05d8c..377e09d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ telemetry = ["opentelemetry", "opentelemetry-contrib", "rand"]
 futures = "0.3.17"
 pin-project = "1.0.10"
 tokio = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["net", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "sync", "time", "macros", "io-util", "signal"] }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6.8", default-features = false, features = ["compat"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.6.8", default-features = false, features = ["compat", "io"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1.7"
 
 serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive", "rc"] }
diff --git a/src/stream.rs b/src/stream.rs
index aa7641f..f5607b3 100644
--- a/src/stream.rs
+++ b/src/stream.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use bytes::Bytes;
 
 use futures::Future;
-use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
+use futures::{Stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};
+use tokio::io::AsyncRead;
 
 /// A stream of associated data.
 ///
@@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ pub type ByteStream = Pin<Box<dyn Stream<Item = Packet> + Send + Sync>>;
 
 pub type Packet = Result<Bytes, u8>;
 
+// ----
+
 pub struct ByteStreamReader {
 	stream: ByteStream,
 	buf: VecDeque<Bytes>,
@@ -175,3 +178,49 @@ impl<'a> Future for ByteStreamReadExact<'a> {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// ----
+
+fn u8_to_io_error(v: u8) -> std::io::Error {
+	use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind};
+	let kind = match v {
+		101 => ErrorKind::ConnectionAborted,
+		102 => ErrorKind::BrokenPipe,
+		103 => ErrorKind::WouldBlock,
+		104 => ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+		105 => ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+		106 => ErrorKind::TimedOut,
+		107 => ErrorKind::Interrupted,
+		108 => ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof,
+		109 => ErrorKind::OutOfMemory,
+		110 => ErrorKind::ConnectionReset,
+		_ => ErrorKind::Other,
+	};
+	Error::new(kind, "(in netapp stream)")
+}
+
+fn io_error_to_u8(e: std::io::Error) -> u8 {
+	use std::io::{ErrorKind};
+	match e.kind() {
+		ErrorKind::ConnectionAborted => 101,
+		ErrorKind::BrokenPipe => 102,
+		ErrorKind::WouldBlock => 103,
+		ErrorKind::InvalidInput => 104,
+		ErrorKind::InvalidData => 105,
+		ErrorKind::TimedOut => 106,
+		ErrorKind::Interrupted => 107,
+		ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof => 108,
+		ErrorKind::OutOfMemory => 109,
+		ErrorKind::ConnectionReset => 110,
+		_ => 100,
+	}
+}
+
+pub fn asyncread_stream<R: AsyncRead + Send + Sync + 'static>(reader: R) -> ByteStream {
+	Box::pin(tokio_util::io::ReaderStream::new(reader)
+		.map_err(io_error_to_u8))
+}
+
+pub fn stream_asyncread(stream: ByteStream) -> impl AsyncRead + Send + Sync + 'static {
+	tokio_util::io::StreamReader::new(stream.map_err(u8_to_io_error))
+}