Re:Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 asse...
by mct on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:58PM
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I love that the networking stack uses SLIP and slattach(1)!
I was playing with a toy TCP/IP stack, and decided using SLIP over a pty on Linux was a great way to interface with the kernel. Unfortunately it looks like macOS previously shipped with slattach(1) a very long time ago, but no longer does.
I'm curios if other people have used SLIP on macOS to get a dead-simple, cross-platform API to the networking stack?
The alternative would be to use tun/tap on Linux and utun on macOS, but SLIP would be so much nicer.
I was playing with a toy TCP/IP stack, and decided using SLIP over a pty on Linux was a great way to interface with the kernel. Unfortunately it looks like macOS previously shipped with slattach(1) a very long time ago, but no longer does.
I'm curios if other people have used SLIP on macOS to get a dead-simple, cross-platform API to the networking stack?
The alternative would be to use tun/tap on Linux and utun on macOS, but SLIP would be so much nicer.