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Simple Swarm

this is a practice in UDP Multicasting

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a basic server would look something like this:

conn, _ := net.ListenMulticastUDP("udp", nil, 
    &net.UDPAddr{
        IP: []byte{239, 255, 255, 19},
        Port: 25519,
    },
)
defer conn.Close()
b := []byte{}
conn.ReadFromUDP(b)

a basic client would look something like this:

conn, _ := net.DialUDP("udp", nil,
    &net.UDPAddr{
        IP:   []byte{239, 255, 255, 19},
        Port: 25519,
    },
)
defer conn.Close()
conn.Write([]byte("somebytes")

swarm

as each instance of this is executed on the network (or on the same computer), every 5 seconds the instance broadcasts a UDP packet containing a newly generated public key, a random service port, and consequentially its own ip address from the IP packet. each time an instance receives a UDP multicast packet, it checks the new peer's public key against a map, if its a newly found peer, it will log it to stdout, and add it to the map in memory.

demo

1. git clone this project
2. use ./build.sh to build in docker, or just use go build
3. open up a few terminals and run ./sswarm in each terminal