amos loves to tinker

Blog posts that praise Rust are many but funding is generally in short supply.

If even a small percentage of the money Rust saves companies was put back into the ecosystem it would help secure the future of the platform tremendously.

Multiple sources of funding

It is...

Now that we’ve found the best way to find the “default network interface”… what can we do with that interface?

Well, listen for network traffic of course!

use rawsock::open_best_library;
use std::time::Instant;

fn main() -> Result<(), Error>...

Okay, I lied.

I’m deciding - right this instant - that using wmic is cheating too. Oh, it was fair game when we were learning about Windows, but we’re past that now.

We know there’s IPv4 routing tables, and we know network interfaces have indices (yes, they...

Let’s set aside our sup project for a while.

Don’t get me wrong - it’s a perfectly fine project, and, were we simply rewriting “ping” for Windows in Rust, we could (almost) stop there.

We’re currently using the operating system’s...

Once upon a time, @Cinememer wrote some alternative lyrics to “Under The Sea”. I couldn’t resist singing them!

• Download high-quality audio (FLAC)
• Download audio (OGG)
• Download audio (MP3)
• Download lyrics (TXT)
• Instrumental (Neverland Orchestra)

Our ping API is simple, but it’s also very limited:

pub fn ping(dest: ipv4::Addr) -> Result<(), String>

// called as:
ping(ipv4::Addr([8, 8, 8, 8])).unwrap();

It doesn’t allow specifying the TTL (time to live) of packets, it doesn’t allow...

We’ve just spent a lot of time abstracting over LoadLibrary, but we still have all the gory details of the Win32 ICMP API straight in our main.rs file! That won’t do.

This time will be much quicker, since we already learned about carefully designing an API, hiding...

It’s refactor time!

Our complete program is now about a hundred lines, counting blank lines (see the end of part 3 for a complete listing).

While this is pretty good for a zero-dependency project (save for pretty-hex), we can do better.

First off, concerns are mixed...