gregunz / Peerster

Peerster - A peer-to-peer application in the ​Go programming language

Peerster

A peer-to-peer application in the Go programming language

How to

Main application

To display help, from the root directory:

go run *.go -h

  -GUI
    	whether GUI is enabled (set to true if GUIPort != 0)
  -GUIPort uint
    	port for the GUI client (if 0, a port is randomly assigned)
  -UIPort uint
    	port for the UI client (default 8080)
  -gossipAddr value
    	ip:port for the gossiper (default "127.0.0.1:5000")
  -name string
    	name of the gossiper
  -peers value
    	comma-separated list of peers of the form ip:port
  -rtimer uint
    	route rumors sending period in seconds, 0 to disable sending of route rumors
  -simple
    	run gossiper in simple broadcast mode

For example:

go run *.go -UIPort=8080 -GUIPort=8080 -gossipAddr=localhost:5000 -name=GossiperName -peers=localhost:5001

Client (command line)

First cd to the client directory

cd client

Then to display help:

go run *.go -h

  -UIPort uint
    	port for the UI client (default 8080)
  -dest string
    	destination for the private message or file request
  -file string
    	filename to be indexed by the gossiper
  -msg string
    	message to be sent
  -request string
    	request metafile of this hash

For example:

go run *.go -UIPort=8080 -msg="message content here"

GUI

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) will be available at:

http://localhost:8080/

when running the main application (depending on the port for GUIPort you choose).

Notes

This project was done during this course:

Decentralized Systems Engineering (CS-438 @EPFL) Fall 2018 (https://dedis.epfl.ch)