This project is for educational purposes and tries to implement a basic p2p network using protobuf for message encoding.
Peers can exchange information about other known peers.
- a little endian encoded uint64 that specifies the size of the next message
- the message itself
A peer sends a Message with type HELLO to announce itself to another peer.
The other node is replying with a HELLO.
The initiating peer is replying with a Peer containing it's own data
(ToDo: move this into the payload of the HELLO)
A peer sends a Message with type GETPEERS to ask for other known peers.
The payload of the request is GetPeersOptions object.
The receiving node will reply with [n <=limit] Peer objects.