TwIP - An IP Stack In a Tweet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 30, 2009 @10:21AM from the small-is-good dept.

Adam Dunkels writes "Inspired by the Twitter-sized program that crashes Mac OS X, I just wrote a really, really rudimentary IP stack called twIP, small enough to fit in a Twitter tweet. Although twIP is very far away from a real IP stack, it can do the first task of any IP stack: respond to pings. The entire source code can be found in this 128-character-long tweet. For those who are interested in low-level network programming, a code walkthrough with instructions on how to run the code under FreeBSD is available here. The FAQ: Q: why? A: for fun."

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Article mod: -1 Overrated by Looce · 2009-08-30 10:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

The underlying system must provide a way for user programs to receive and send IP packets.
This is where I stopped reading. Just... no. This is just a program that echoes every single thing back to the originator.