Flint - A peer to peer file sharing system

Distributed systems term project

Three tiered architecture with downloading protocol similar to BitTorrent and searching similar to Gnutella

Basic components in the system

• Bootstrap manager
• Peer manager
• Superpeer manager

Commands for running the code

• Bootstrap manager python3 bootstrap_manager.py
• Peer manager python3 peer_manager.py [BOOTSTRAP_HOSTNAME] [SHARED_DIRECTORY]
• Superpeer manager python3 superpeer_manager.py [BOOTSTRAP_HOSTNAME]

See Design Documentation for more details