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29 lines
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# Client Module
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This module is incharge of communicating with the server and receiving the appropriate information back from the server.
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## Functions of the Client Module
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- [Interact with the Server Api](#functions-of-the-client-module)
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- [Decision maker on how the ip table is created or updated](#decision-maker-on-how-the-ip-table-is-created-or-updated)
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## Interact with the Server Api
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This sections talks about the functionality implemented till now.
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- The client can start docker containers using the function StartContainer.
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This functions calls the route:
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```
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http://<server IP address>:<server port>/startcontainer
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```
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TODO: Outputs and how it's printed
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## Decision maker on how the IP table is created or updated
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- Does a local speedtest to verify and see if the server IP's in the IP table
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are pingable.
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- Downloads the Servers IP table.
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- Tries to ping the servers IP Table addresses.
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- If it's pingable then it's added as a new entry in the IP table.
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- The following steps occurs in the clients IP table.
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- To ensure that the same servers are not being called to update the IP table. There is
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a temporary list of IP address which have already been called in relation to updating the
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IP table.
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- Based on the current implementation there will 3 hops done to update the IP table.
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