Team Dubstep Ducks
Project 1 for the Software Systems class
This student project was created as part of an educational course. For more details, see the final report.
This project alows users to set up their own peer to peer file transfer system following the BitTorrent protocol. This distribution is not intended for rigorous use, and was instead designed as a learning exercise for the team. As such, the project is more than likely disfunctional, although it may still prove to be valuable as a reference.
To compile the project from source, simply run make in the root directory.
Before running any clients, the tracker server must be set up. Executing the tracker_serv.out binary will initialize the tracker server on your machine. Make note of your machine's IP address, as this will need to be encoded in any torrent files that you distribute.
Now that the tracker server is up and running, you must generate a torrent file for the file that you want to distribute. Run encode.out <name of file you want to distribute> <your IP here> to generate a torrent file for the file specified. You will want to distribute <file to distribute>.torrent to all of the clients via your ftp of choice.
Each client must posess a copy of this torrent file in order to join the network, as it contains important metadata about the file being transferred.
To initialize a client, execute the torrent_client.out binary. This process will attempt to download the example file from any other active clients in the network.
Daniel Bishop
Jordan Van Duyne
Thuc Tran
Andrew Pan
bencode.c written by Mike Frysinger and edited by Adam Aviv
openssl/sha.h by OpenSSL
MIT License
Copyright (c) [2017] [Daniel Bishop]
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