Module network

Network communication and peer management

This module handles all network-related functionality, including peer discovery, message sending/receiving, and connection management in the distributed system.

Structs

NETWORK_MANAGER

NetworkManager

Manages network connections and peer communication

PeerConnection

Represents a connection to a peer node

Functions

announce

Announces this node’s presence to potential peers in the network. If the user gave peers in args, we will only connect to those peers. If not, we will scan the port range and try connecting to all sockets.

diffuse_message

Implement our wave diffusion protocol

diffuse_message_without_lock

Implement our wave diffusion protocol

handle_network_message

Handles incoming messages from a peer Implement our wave diffusion protocol

send_message

Send a message to a specific peer

spawn_writer_task

Spawns a task to handle writing messages to a peer connection

start_listening

Starts listening for messages from a new peer