https://github.com/chobits/tapip

user-mode TCP/IP stack based on linux tap device
https://github.com/chobits/tapip

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user-mode TCP/IP stack based on linux tap device

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chobits/tapip
• Owner: chobits
• Created: 2011-08-29T12:32:08.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-13T04:31:04.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T04:31:01.623Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 188 KB
• Stars: 669
• Watchers: 28
• Forks: 128
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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tapip

=====

A user-mode TCP/IP stack based on linux tap device.  

* :exclamation: It's not a production-ready networking stack, only my practical project after learning network stack.

* :memo: If you have already learned the TCP/IP stack and want to 

  * build one to replace the Linux network stack to play, try [network toplogy (1)](doc/net_topology#L2).

  * build one to communicate with localhost (the Linux network stack and apps on it), try  [network toplogy (2)](doc/net_topology#L126).

Dependence

==========

* linux tun/tap device (/dev/net/tun exists if supported)

* pthreads

Quick start

===========

```

$ make

# ./tapip                    (run as root)

[net shell]: ping 10.0.0.2   (ping linux kernel TCP/IP stack)

(waiting icmp echo reply...)

[net shell]: help            (see all embedded commands)

...

```

The corresponding network topology is here: [network topology (2)](doc/net_topology#L126).

More information for hacking TCP/UDP/IP/ICMP:  

  See [doc/net_topology](doc/net_topology), and select a script from [doc/test](doc/test) to do.

Socket Api

==========

_socket,_read,_write,_send,_recv,_connect,_bind,_close and _listen are provided now.  

Three socket types(SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW) can be used.  

You can use these apis to write applications working on tapip.  

Good examples are app/ping.c and app/snc.c.

How to implement

================

I refer to xinu and Linux 2.6.11 TCP/IP stack and use linux tap device to simulate net device(for l2).  

A small shell is embedded in tapip.  

So this is just user-mode TCP/IP stack :)

Any use

=======  

Tapip makes it easy to hack TCP/IP stack, just compiling it to run.  

It can also do some network test: arp snooping, proxy, and NAT!  

I think the most important is that tapip helps me learn TCP/IP, and understand linux TCP/IP stack.

Other

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You can refer to [saminiir/level-ip](https://github.com/saminiir/level-ip) and its blog posts for more details.