derhuerst/node-awdl

don't spawn nc, open socket directly

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#1 opened on Feb 24, 2020

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Description

Right now, this package spawns nc a.k.a. netcat to listen for awdl0 traffic; This is a bit hacky, doing it from within Node via its UDP socket API/TCP socket API would be cleaner.

I'm not an expert, and I failed miserably at porting these working implementations:

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Research direction
Understand the current nc spawning approach, study the referenced opendrop and Yggdrasil implementations, and use Node.js dgram/net APIs to open a socket on awdl0.
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javascriptnodejs
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backend
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3
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Clear
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Node.jsnetworking concepts
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65