Reliable User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

A simple rust based project that will send variable number of requests from the client side to the server side. The request that is being sent in this case, for the purpose of simplicity is a simple "ping" message, and the server upon recieving the message will respond with "pong", alongside the current sequence number as well as the round trip time. Round trip time is used to calculate the time it takes for a client to send a request and to recieve a response back.

The program sends 10 Ping ➡️ messages back-to-back, and ensures that 10 Pong ⬅️ messages are sent back.

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Getting Started

If you would like to locally rn the project, please follow the instructions below

Prerequisites

Ensure that rust is installed on your operating system if this is your first time working with Rust. If you are fmiliar with Rust, you can skip subsequent steps below.

• Install Rust

  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh 

  Reference Link

• Open up a new terminal and ensure that rustc, cargo and rustup are installed, otherwise, you will need to configure them as part of your PATH variable.

  rustc --version

  cargo --version

  rustup --version
  

  Installation

1. Setup your bot and retrieve it's token following the guide and add the server to a server for testing Setup Instructions
2. Clone the repository

   https://github.com/DeveloperMindset123/reliable-udp.git

3. Move to the directory where it is intalled

   cd reliable-udp

4. Run the following command to ensure that all the relevant dependancies are installed:

   cargo build

5. Change git remote url to avoid accidental pushes to base project

   git remote set-url origin github_username/repo_name
   git remote -v # confirm the changes

6. Run the appropriate file

cargo run --bin final_reliable_udp

NOTE : While in the demo I am adding RUSTFLAGS, that's to target different compilers, since the backend for Cargo is gcc/clang compilers, so it is an optional flag I add during compilation since my original linker is corrupt. Hence I use custom compiler path.

If you would like to learn more about this, refer to the following post I made on stack overflow on my process of debugging this issue Relevant Stack Overflow Link

This might be helpful if you run into compilation errors and happen to be using Mac OS X.

Demo