PTOP - Peer TO Peer

A Peer to Peer program suite for sending files directly to friends using the UDP protocol.

usage as peer:

getting started

• Install Cmake.
• Add Cmake to your path environment variable.
• Build the project.
• Deploy to a server and run ptop_rendezvous.exe on it.
• run ptop.exe and provide the IP address of the server.
• wait until your friend has connected also. Hole punching will begin with the first person who connects.

build on windows

Install Visual Studio Community Edition. Add msbuild to the path environment variable.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin

Run the following terminal commands.

cmake -B build
msbuild build\ptop.sln

run on windows

build\Debug\ptop.exe

build on linux

cmake -B build
cd build
make

run on linux

./build/ptop

commands

Once a connection has been hole punched to your friend, commands become available in the same terminal.

help

prints all the commands available.

msg

Sends a message to your peer.
Must include a colon and space.

msg: 'any text after msg will be sent' with or without quotes

file

Send a file a to your peer.
Must include a colon and space.
Currently only files in the Current Working Directory are supported for transfer.
File name need not be quoted (quotes will be assumed part of the filename).
Currently file transfer is hard capped at 10 MB/s, you will probably observe slower speeds. To change this go to negotiation.h and modify the _KB_PER_SECOND variable.

file: uwu.txt

delay

Delays hole punching for your side.
Useful only for testing, must be ran before hole punching to have an effect.

delay

debug

Print various debugging variables.
Usable during, before and after hole punching.

debug

quit

Closes the ptop program.

quit