Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP

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  • arpchat

    Answering the question nobody asked: what if you wanted to text your friends using only ARP?

  • samba-haiku

  • I love (ab)using protocols that are built-in to most OS'. I wrote a dumb fake samba share that let people see messages in Finder.app/Explorer.exe/Gnome/KDE since I couldn't find a cross-platform gui or cli messaging system that didn't require installing special client software. (even netcat invocations were not working when trying on our local network, and had OS-specific flag differences if we wanted to do broadcast).

    You see the samba share message in your file browser, click it and can edit the filenames to update a 3-line "bulletin board".

    https://github.com/jedahan/samba-haiku/blob/master/index.js

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  • arpchatcpp

    textual chat exploiting gratuitous ARP requests ( RFC 5227 ) written in c++

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