P2P chat application written in C, based on the work of:
Charles (Ben) Schmaltz, Alexander Leavitt, Yiqi Chen
run make to compile the code
to run tracker program, it takes in one optional parameter:
./tracker %tracker_port%
This will create two UDP sockets at ports %tracker_port% and %tracker_port+1%. If %tracker_port% is not specified, it uses 8080. So, the ports used are 8080 and 8081
to run peer program, it takes in 3 parameters:
./peer %tracker_ip% %tracker_port% %peer_port%
Peer program takes user inputs, and below is the input format:
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To request a list of all available rooms and number of peers in each room:
-r
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To request to create a new room:
-c
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To request to join or switch to a new room:
-j %new_chatroom_number%
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To request to leave a room
-l
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To send a message to peers in the chatroom:
-m %message_that_you_want_to_send%
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To set nickname:
-n %nickname%