derhuerst/node-awdl

use the NetService Bounjour browsing API to "enable" AWDL traffic

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#3 opened on Feb 25, 2020

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Description

It seems like, on some Macs, AWDL traffic is not permanently "enabled"/allowed, but applications must explicitly request it to be "passed through" to the awdl0 interface. proxawdl does this via the NetService API:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/proxawdl/blob/24c19da1b0fb71a180104e2014a93e11d7bd5227/proxawdl/main.swift#L108-L128

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Examine the proxawdl implementation and research how to call the NetService API from Node.js, possibly via a native addon module using N API or Swift interop.
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javascript
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backend
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