LAN Party

A terminal chat application for local area networks.

Home Screen

Modes Menu

Chat

Features

• Automatic host discovery over LAN
• Real-time chat messaging
• Live user list with online/offline status
• Light and dark themes

How it works

When someone hosts a chat, LAN Party broadcasts b"LANPARTY" over UDP on port 55555. Other clients listen on the same port for that packet. Once a host is found, the client connects to it over TCP.

After that, every message is sent to the host, which forwards it to everyone else in the chat.

Installation

cargo install lanparty

Usage

lanparty

# or

$HOME/.cargo/bin/lanparty

License

MIT