Mini-Bittorrent

Requirement-

sudo apt install openssl libssl-dev

Running the Project

• Run make in tracker.cpp directory and client.cpp directory.
• Run the following command to activate tracker server

./tracker <my_tracker_ip>:<my_tracker_port> <other_tracker_ip>:<other_tracker_port>  <seederlist_file>

• Run the following command to activate client server in client directory.

./client <CLIENT_IP>:<UPLOAD_PORT> <TRACKER_IP_1>:<TRACKER_PORT_1> <TRACKER_IP_2>:<TRACKER_PORT_2>

Functions on Client side

Share

• It share the file over the network and can be accessible through mtorrent file.

share <local_file_path> <filename>.<file_extension>.mtorrent

Download

• It downloads the file mentioned in mtorrent from available seeder.

 get <path_to_.mtorrent_file> <destination_path>

Downloads Status

• Check which files are Downloaded.

show_downloads

Remove user from Seederlist

remove <filename.mtorrent>

Closing the client

close

Summary