Distributed Chat System

Members of Group 2

This is an distributed Chat System realized by Python, it will use Server-Client Model and will fullfil the requirments of

• Architecture model
• Dynamic discovery
• Fault tolerance
• Voting
• Ordered reliable multicast

Usage

1. Open one terminal run the following to give permission
   chmod +x ./run_servers.sh
chmod +x ./stop_all.sh
   
2. Run
   ./run_servers.sh number
   to start number of servers
   
3. Open new terminal and run
   python client.py
4. write the message you wanna send in the running client terminal
5. Repeat step 3 and 4 to add clients
6. Open a new terminal and run ps -T | grep server to check all the running servers.
   Run kill PID to kill servers
7. Run ./stop_all to kill all the threads