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We would would love you to get involved with our Github repo.

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  • If you would like to contribute, please read the coding guidelines before you get started.

  • Installation from source is described in the Installation.

  • Contribute to Swarm’s evolution by proposing your own Swarm Improvement Proposal (SWIP) here.

Testing a connection with PingPong protocol​

To check if two nodes are connected and to see the round trip time for message exchange between them, get the overlay address from one node, for example local node 2:

curl localhost:1833/addresses

Make sure addresses are configured as in examples above.

And use that address in the API call on another node, for example, local node 1:

curl -X POST localhost:1735/pingpong/d4440baf2d79e481c3c6fd93a2014d2e6fe0386418829439f26d13a8253d04f1

Generating protobuf​

To process protocol buffer files and generate the Go code from it two tools are needed:

Makefile rule protobuf can be used to automate protoc-gen-gogofaster installation and code generation:

make protobuf