What if I tell you that it’s possible to communicate with your peers over the network using ARP protocol?
That’s true; there is a new application name ARPCHAT written in a rust programming language by user kognise can achieve this thing very quickly and efficiently.
This application takes advantage of the ARP protocol (Which requires discovering the system’s mac address on the link layer of the network), only requiring that all users are connected to the same network.
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