Making our own ping complete

14 articles 280 minute read networking · rust · windows

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

15 minute read

networking · icmp · win32 · rust · ffi

4. Designing and implementing a safer API on top of LoadLibrary

Oct 04, 2019

17 minute read

rust · win32 · ffi · api-design

5. A simple ping library, parsing strings into IPv4 address

Oct 12, 2019

13 minute read

networking · icmp · rust · ffi · win32 · api-design

6. The builder pattern, and a macro that keeps FFI code DRY

Oct 12, 2019

14 minute read

networking · icmp · rust · macros

7. Finding the default network interface through WMI

Nov 05, 2019

14 minute read

networking · icmp · rust · wmi

8. Binding C APIs with variable-length structs and UTF-16

Nov 05, 2019

18 minute read

networking · rust · ffi · text-encoding · win32

9. Consuming Ethernet frames with the nom crate

Nov 05, 2019

28 minute read

networking · ethernet · rust · assembly · parsing

10. Improving error handling - panics vs. proper errors

Nov 21, 2019

18 minute read

rust · errors

11. Parsing IPv4 packets, including numbers smaller than bytes

Nov 21, 2019

23 minute read

networking · icmp · rust · ip · parsing

12. Parsing and serializing ICMP packets with cookie-factory.

Dec 12, 2019

24 minute read

networking · icmp · rust · ip · parsing

13. Crafting ARP packets to find a remote host's MAC address

Dec 12, 2019

20 minute read

networking · rust · win32 · ffi · arp · ethernet · parsing

14. Crafting ICMP-bearing IPv4 packets with the help of bitvec

Dec 12, 2019

40 minute read

networking · icmp · rust · ip · parsing

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