Test P2P Network

Experiment with P2P networks using gRPC in golang.

Getting Started

go get -u
go mod tidy

Generating proto files

protoc --go_out=plugins=grpc:. --go_opt=paths=source_relative pkg/ping/ping.proto

Get info on all the available commands

go run ./main.go --help

You can do a test execution with the ping test command, this will setup two nodes that will ping each other.

go run ./main.go pingTest

You can start up nodes in an interactive shell mode to allow you to communicate with the network.

go run ./main.go start --address 172.0.0.1:9999
# full list of args `cmd\node\start.go` init()

Once your node is booted up successfully, the interactive shell will start and you can begin to enter commands.

Currently the only working commands: