Peer to peer chat application written in C for CS 3251

Group: Robin Egg Blue Team Members: Charles (Ben) Schmaltz, Alexander Leavitt, Yiqi Chen

run make to compile the code

to run tracker program, it takes in one optional parameter:

./tracker %tracker_port%

This will create two UDP sockets at ports %tracker_port% and %tracker_port+1%. If %tracker_port% is not specified, it uses 8080. So, the ports used are 8080 and 8081

to run peer program, it takes in 3 parameters:

./peer %tracker_ip% %tracker_port% %peer_port%

peer program takes user inputs, and below is the input format:

to request a list of all available rooms and number of peers in each room:

-r

to request to create a new room:

-c

to request to join or switch to a new room:

-j %new_chatroom_number%

to request to leave a room

-l

to send a message to peers in the chatroom:

-m %message_that_you_want_to_send%