p2p-rendering-computation/Docs/Client.md

Client Module

This module is incharge of communicating with the server and receiving the appropriate information back from the server.

Functions of the Client Module

• Interact with the Server Api
• Decision maker on how the ip table is created or updated

Interact with the Server Api

This sections talks about the functionality implemented till now.

• The client can start docker containers using the function StartContainer. This functions calls the route:

http://<server IP address>:<server port>/startcontainer

TODO: Outputs and how it's printed

Decision maker on how the IP table is created or updated

• Does a local speedtest to verify and see if the server IP's in the IP table are pingable.
• Downloads the Servers IP table.
• Tries to ping the servers IP Table addresses.
• If it's pingable then it's added as a new entry in the IP table.
• The following steps occurs in the clients IP table.
• To ensure that the same servers are not being called to update the IP table. There is a temporary list of IP address which have already been called in relation to updating the IP table.
• Based on the current implementation there will 3 hops done to update the IP table.