wyk9787 / g-chatbox

A P2P chat box implemented in C which provides both scalability and fault tolerance.

G-ChatBox

A P2P chat box implemented in C which provides both scalability and fault tolerance.

Features

• Scalability

The system scales to many thousands of users without the need for a massive server or high-end internet connection. That means clients are not connecting to a single central server. Each peer(client) is itself both a client and a server.

• Reliability

The system tolerates failure of any individual peer node in the service including the failure of very first node joined the network; there is no single point of failure. In the case of failure of directory server, already joined peers will be able to proceed their conversation as usual.

• Network Partition Avoidance

The way directory server helps each client join the network avoids the possibility of network partition entirely.

Usage

Server side

./server

Client side

./client <username> <server address>