Test Connecting Multiple Host Implementation

[araskachoi]

Will need to verify that two host clients will be able to communicate with one another

• spin two clients up
• add the client to the static peers file (IP)
• establish a handshake (if applicable)
• verify that packets can be sent from one client to another
• output to stdout and pipe to a file

[araskachoi]

@adam-hanna
Do you think you can describe the process briefly (with the exact commands) so that i can easily deploy this on my own?

[adam-hanna]

@araskachoi yup! The easiest way to do this is via the subnet command: $ go run ./cmd/subnet/main.go

The default will connect 10 hosts together using the whiteblocks peering topology. Make any necessary changes to configs/subnet/config.json

See the readme for how to manually connect hosts.

[araskachoi]

@adam-hanna so the issue with using subnet would be that it would all be done on one container. We will need to generate multiple containers that are logically separated with their own designated IP.

I was more interested in the command that is required to connect two clients that have been spun up.

I believe we are using unique node identifiers using the multiaddr format provided by lilbp2p. is there a way to simplify this to just the IP address?

[adam-hanna]

yeah, I was building subnet for myself.

You can connect a host to another by passing it the cli flag -p or via the config file. Just give it a comma separated list. This won't work for hosts that are already running, obviously.

I'll add a command to the rpc channel (and implement it on the client) to be able to tell it to connect to another host. In this way, we'll be able to connect, after spinning up.