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Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP (github.com)
88 points by calmingsolitude 1553 days ago
4 comments

Nice one, imagine an underlay chat system over adhoc Wi-Fi networks.

This software reminds me of the venerable dsniff tool for manipulating ARP and other network prootcols traffics.

[1] https://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSniff

> if you wanted, you could probably split off the networking part of this and use it instead of udp. please don't do this.

Why not? :D

This is a thing of beauty. Thank you, kognise!