Pigeon FTP

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Pigeon FTP is a network protocol which provides a sophisticated point-to-multipoint data transfer.

Under the hood, it uses UDP to send packets from one host to another. Stop-and-Wait Automatic Repeat Request scheme implemented on top of UDP guarantees reliable data transfer.

Installation

Clone this repo

git clone git@github.ncsu.edu:pmgaikwa/pigeon-ftp pigeon-ftp

# switch to directory
cd pigeon-ftp

Install virtualenv on your box

pip --user install virtualenv

Create virtualenv

# create virtualenv
virtualenv --python=<path_to_python_3.7_executable> venv		# starts a virtualenv in "pigeon-ftp" directory

Start virtualenv

# start venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install

# install project modules
python setup.py install

# install external dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Testing

python setup.py test

Documentation

Find all the relevant documentation in docs directory.