peerchat

Distributed, P2P, realtime chat application written in golang for MIT's 6.824 distributed systems class.

Testing

Run the tests with:

$ cd src/dht
$ go get github.com/pmylund/sortutil
$ go test 2> /dev/null

You should see this:

(ml)31-35-161:dht will$ go test 2> /dev/null
Running TestSerialization
passed
Running TestBasic
passed
Running TestManyRegistrations
Passed!
Running TestManyMoreRegistrations
Passed!
Running TestSends
Passed!
Running TestSomeLogoffs
Passed!
Running TestPersistance
Passed!
Running TestNewIP
Passed!
Running TestOfflineChat
Passed!
Running TestDualOfflineChat
Passed!
Running TestDualOfflineChat
Passed!
Running TestRealLife
Passed!

so long as K and Alpha are set appropriately as we have them defaulted to. You may see that on less powerful computers that TestRealLife will fail.

Chatting

Start a chat node with:

$ go build
$ ./peerchat

Or alternatively:

$ go run chat.go