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Making our own ping

When I launched my Patreon, I vowed to explain how computers work. But in 2019, computers rarely work in isolation. So let's take the time to write a few articles about how computers talk to each other.

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Series overview

1. A short (and mostly wrong) history of computer networking
Sep 27, 2019
15 minute read
#networking #history
2. Windows dynamic libraries, calling conventions, and transmute
Sep 28, 2019
21 minute read
#networking #icmp #win32 #rust #ffi
3. FFI-safe types in Rust, newtypes and MaybeUninit
Sep 30, 2019
20 minute read
#networking #icmp #win32 #rust #ffi
4. Designing and implementing a safer API on top of LoadLibrary
Oct 04, 2019
21 minute read
#rust #win32 #ffi #api-design
5. A simple ping library, parsing strings into IPv4 address
Oct 12, 2019
17 minute read
#networking #icmp #rust #ffi #win32 #api-design
6. The builder pattern, and a macro that keeps FFI code DRY
Oct 12, 2019
17 minute read
#networking #icmp #rust #macros
7. Finding the default network interface through WMI
Nov 05, 2019
23 minute read
#networking #icmp #rust #wmi
8. Binding C APIs with variable-length structs and UTF-16
Nov 05, 2019
31 minute read
#networking #rust #ffi #text-encoding #win32
9. Consuming Ethernet frames with the nom crate
Nov 05, 2019
42 minute read
#networking #ethernet #rust #assembly #parsing
10. Improving error handling - panics vs. proper errors
Nov 21, 2019
36 minute read
#rust #errors
11. Parsing IPv4 packets, including numbers smaller than bytes
Nov 21, 2019
37 minute read
#networking #icmp #rust #ip #parsing
12. Parsing and serializing ICMP packets with cookie-factory.
Dec 12, 2019
42 minute read
#networking #icmp #rust #ip #parsing
13. Crafting ARP packets to find a remote host's MAC address
Dec 12, 2019
35 minute read
#networking #rust #win32 #ffi #arp #ethernet #parsing
14. Crafting ICMP-bearing IPv4 packets with the help of bitvec
Dec 12, 2019
80 minute read
#networking #icmp #rust #ip #parsing

This series is complete.

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