simplep2pgossip

Simple CLI app for P2P gossiping written in Rust.

Docs

$ cargo doc

Building

For building with cargo, you'll need openssl lib. After that, just run:

$ cargo build [--release]

Running tests

Tests require mock_time feature enabled: $ cargo test --features mock_time. But you can simply run:

$ ./test.sh

Also, you can run basic autotest, which runs 3 nodes and checks output for correctness and consistency. You'll need to have python3 been installed. After building, run from repo root:

$ ./autotests.py target/[debug, release]/simplep2pgossip 

Starting peer

Before starting a peer, you'll need to generate SSL certificate, for example:

$ openssl genrsa 4096 > key.pem
$ openssl req -x509 -days 1000 -new -key key.pem -out cert.pem

After that you can run your first node:

$ RUST_LOG=simplep2pgossip=info,warp=info ./simplep2pgossip --cert=cert.pem --key=key.pem  --period=5 --port=8080 --bind=127.0.0.1

Then you can run other nodes, that will get a list of peers from the first peer with the key --connect:

$ RUST_LOG=simplep2pgossip=info,warp=info ./simplep2pgossip --cert=cert.pem --key=key.pem  --period=5 --port=8081 --bind=127.0.0.1 --connect=127.0.0.1:8080

All nodes are equal to each other, and share peer lists with each other, making it sustainable on case, when tracker is becoming unavailable.

To improve

• Proper trust model
• Optimize lists replay
• Get rid of sending self name
• Make connections persistent