Implement that!

[bjornredtail]

Quick, can someone write me a packet sniffer? Like, within the next 8 minutes would be great.

[Peace Alliance]

I'll train my dogs...

[Firetooth]

ʎɥʇɹoʍunǝɹɐsqoounoʎsʞɔoɹɥʇooʇǝɹıɟ

[Shadow]

ewww, a peace-pun

[bjornredtail]

Peace's dogs are quite good at telling me what in them packets.

I mean, other programmers are turning to dogs for their network analysis need too: See http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/pcap/section1.html

Yeah.

[Ungatt Trunn II]

packet sniffer? what is in these packets..... narcotics?

[bjornredtail]

In this case it was a lot of ICMP echo requests. But, you can never be sure...


This week I'm writing a chat server and client. So far, I've gotten the UDP implementation working fairly well.

[bjornredtail]

Ack, it seems I'm having stupid build issues. The program would work perfectly if only I could get it to compile.

[Shadow]

Famous last words?

[bjornredtail]

Not yet they aren't. Deadline in 2 hours, and I still can't get this darn thing to build.

[bjornredtail]

So, the problem turns out to be something that is NOT IN MY CODE!!!!111one

I hate broken professor provided code

[Shadow]

ugh, that happened to me first semester. We were supposed to make a minesweeper game with the UI provided, but the UI was all buggy and we only got the bytcode for it so there was nothing we could do to fix it. Actually there probably was but I am only a beginner.

[bjornredtail]

I think I've got it working. But, I cheated.
I wanted to use the superior sigaction, but having any feature request macros break the professor's code. So, I had to use signal(). Which is lame for a number of reasons that don't apply to this program. (I just need signal() to catch SIGINT and clean up memory)

[Blobfish]

[bjornredtail]

Oh, now I'm on to a... Layer 3 routing protocol. YAY!