PeerStreamer

This is an short explaination for the messaging layer library. The library requires the libevent library in the version 2.0.1 alpha and the C math library. The library is implemented in C and works in unix/linux. It is tested with Ubuntu 8.04. The library can be compile with ./make. This library is a network layer abstraction for p2p systems, that has the primitives: - connect to a peer - send arbitrary size data to a peer Furthermore, it provides the functionalites: - pmtu discovery - NAT traversal - data fragmentation and reassembly The library has six source code files: messagingLayer.h messagingLayer.c transmissionHandler.h transmissionHandlder.c stun.h stun.c udpSocket.h udpSocket.c The files stun.h stun.c udpSocket.h udpSocket.c are placed in the subfolder "util". The messagingLayer.h and messagingLayer.c files contain the functions of the API. These files are only wrapper files for function in the transmissionHandler.h and transmissionHandler.c files. The files transmissionHandler.h and transmissionHandler.c have the main functionality of the messaging layer. For simplicity several functionalites were excluded into utility files stun.h, stun.c, udpSocket.h ,and udpSocket.c . Stun.h and stun.c contain the NAT traversal functionality according to STUN. They are used by the transmissionHandler to implement a STUN client. The udpSocket.h and udpSocket.c files contain a udp socket abstraction. In the current implementation the file works only with a unix socket. The tests folder contains various test programs and usage eexample code.