distrans

"The bytes must flow."

Usage

distrans get <dht key> [directory] to download a posted file (defaults to current directory).

distrans post <file> will serve a file, displaying the dht key where it can be downloaded.

TODOs

What is currently broken?

To distribute a large 4GB Linux ISO effectively point-to-point, these need to be addressed:

• File indexing is slow, need to improve performance of the seeding scan on large files.
• Fetcher doesn't yet renegotiate a new private route if/when it drops.
• Fetcher could run with a much higher rate of concurrency. Stress testing indicates Veilid will tolerate up to 20 fetchers.
• Verification of piece digests
• Resuming fetch where we left off, keeping track of state

And then?

Full duplex peer downloading and uploading.

Trackers and swarms.

Development

Currently only NixOS is supported. Cross-platform binaries and OCI images will come later.

nix develop to get a devshell, then

cargo build