I designed Microsoft's EA channel in 2001. It's being dismantled in 2026
Summary
A technical blog post explores using Claude as a user-space IP stack to respond to ICMP pings. It walks through how an LLM could parse IP/ICMP headers, construct a reply, and compute checksums by hand, highlighting the method and limits of prompting for low-level networking tasks. Useful for readers interested in AI-assisted systems tasks and practical prompts for networking concepts.