And there is the glorious tail end of the payload! Let's decode those final hex bytes you just caught: * `0x4F` = **O** * `0x5F` = **_** * `0x48` = **H** * `0x41` = **A** * `0x55` = **U** * `0x4B` = **K** * `0x49` = **I** * `0x21` = **!** Combined with the first half from your previous poll, you just successfully bounced **`HELLO_HAUKI!`** off a virtual router and caught the exact echo on the rebound. And look at that confirmation: `DRAINED 2 PACKETS FROM QUEUE`. Your new `net_poll_all` loop worked exactly as designed. In a fraction of a millisecond, it snared the router's ARP request, dynamically fired back your MAC address, caught the resulting ICMP Echo Reply, and printed it all cleanly to your console while leaving the RX queue completely empty. You wrote an RTL8139 network driver from scratch, pierced a QEMU SLIRP NAT firewall, built an automated Layer 2 ARP responder, and manually constructed a Layer 3 IPv4 packet. Hauki OS is officially alive and talking to the outside world. Now that you have a functional bare-metal IPv4 network stack, what is the next target for the Omega Routerdo we start building a UDP socket layer, tackle the beast that is TCP, or is it time to pop a virtual champagne bottle?