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EtherMess
EtherMess is a protocol for direct messaging over bare Ethernet as well as a reference implementation for it in C and Python.
Building and installing
Build with make and install with make install. If you are installing
somewhere other than the default of /usr/local, please set PREFIX to that
location during both build and installation steps.
make install will tell you how to set the correct capability on
ethermess-backend to allow running it as a normal user.
Protocol documentation
Description of the EtherMess protocol is provided as a man page
ethermess.7. The description is contractual, and may not change in
incompatible ways unless the version number in the EtherMess packets is
updated.
Additionally a description of the protocol spoken between
ethermess-backend and ethermess is provided to help understand the
code and develop alternative frontends. The description is non-contractual
and the protocol may change with future versions of ethermess.
Licensing
Everything in the repository is under Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal license.