#chaosnet #quest update; I wanted the medium of fake ether to not be centralised, and not to look like IP, so it's a line of daisy-chained objects chattering explicitly slowly and awkwardly to neighbors by TCP, since I wanted there to be collisions and propagation times. This has nothing to do with chaosnet, but it's my first pass at approximating how a chaosnet ether might work in some senses.
Real ether is a 75 ohm terminated coax line.
Anyway, servers can dump/receive packets over "ether"s
I basically want to reach the simple behaviour case: An RFC packet is propagated to its destination, which sends back an ANS (data) packet rather than forming a full duplex connection, which would be RFC_{1,2}->OPN_{2,1}->STS_{1,2}. The ANS contains less than 512 bytes of data though (packets not including hw headers are 4032 bits, though (* 8 16) = 128 bits of this is for software headers as well)
Since @lispi314 convinced me to use privacy-respecting networks, I might do tor internet bridges
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