#OTRA routing protocol

Description

The main goal is to design an application layer protocol that provides file transmission among hosts which are connected in a tree-shaped network. Each host offers the capability (service) of forwarding a file by consulting a routing table which maintains references to neighboring hosts (parent and children), then it decides the next hop toward the destination in the tree topology.

Building and use

fast way to compile without an IDE

mkdir bin
find ./src -name *.java > sources_list.txt
javac -d bin/ @sources_list.txt

to run the application

cd bin
java app.Main -id <number> -interface <interface>

since we use two consoles (handle commands and operations debug printing), redirect std.err to a different tty on unix systems

java app.Main -id <number> -interface <interface> 2> /dev/pts/<second_tty>