EtherChat

Experimental chat program based on ethernet frames.

The program uses gopacket to generate frames.

How to build

go build .

How to use

etherchat -i <interface>

Where <interface> is the network interface to use. For example

etherchat -i eth0

How it works

• Etherchat will emit broadcast frames to all neighbors
• Each message has a prefix to distinguish from other traffic
• Frames that are non-chat messages are ignored
• Frames from self are ignored
• Chat messages are displayed prefixed with the source MAC that sent them