MicroTCP
Infrastructure
networking stack
SHOW HN2023
204points
41comments
#273of 3,109 in 2023
Top 9%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Well structured code that follows the RFCs closely.
From 1 comment
It's surprisingly good code for a student hobby project. I dipped in earlier hoping to find some silly gotcha to preen about, but it's well structured, follows a close read of…
tptacek on HN
Good learning exercise for networking.
From 1 comment
As a networking nerd I respect the project OP. Very good learning exercise. There are still many unsolved problems in networking, too. It's a bit of an esoteric field.
Uptrenda on HN
Objections
No license is stated, so the code is unclear for reuse.
From 2 comments
What is the licensing for this code?
surteen on HN(I'm not OP) 1. There is no license, so it's proprietary code. 2. It's a student project, you shouldn't use it for anything.
wolf550e on HN
Requests
Test on many real-world devices and networks, not just an echo server.
From 1 comment
Cool project! I also created a userspace network stack for Wallpunch, a censorship circumvention tool I built. It wasn't clear from the article if you were planning on working on…
willprice89 on HN
Questions
What is the licensing for this code?
From 1 comment
What is the licensing for this code?
surteen on HN
How to get started building a TCP/IP stack from scratch?
From 1 comment
How did you even get started with this? There are many systems I'd love to learn to implement from scratch like databases, network stacks, and caches, but the task seems so vast…
swimwiththebeat on HN
Alternatives named
uIP
From 1 comment
Something similar from... a while ago. How does it compare? https://web.archive.org/web/20060615041317/http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/ https://github.com/adamdunkels/uip…
tpmx on HN
mTCP
From 1 comment
How about TCP for DOS? mTCP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264041
fuzztester on HN
Contiki
From 1 comment
Was about to post the same. Contiki actually came to fame though as it was commonly used for sensor networks an IoT application. Particularly integrating 6lowpan (ZigBee IPv6)…
riedel on HN