[freenet-support] Freeenet: Help to create testbed to setup private freenet network

[Srikanta Pradhan]

Hello Freenet,

I am Srikanta Pradhan, doing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Patna
[An university at India] on security analysis of decentralized P2P system.
I am studying the freenet and its behavior. I have used the simulator in
our research lab for this purpose. As we are not allowed to use any P2P
software/website in our university.

Yesterday I came to know from the IRC chat #freenet that a testbed can be
possible. We have several machines here, where I want to install FREENET
for research purpose and verify their behavior in different conditions as
simulated. I need to create a live FREENET netwrok, a private one [not
connected to any other netwrok/internet] and modify them and observe their
patterns.

But I have not found any materials and also the source code of FREENET.
Can you kindly help me here to create a testbed i.e. to get the source
code of it, the materials for installing as privately, how to make changes
at different layers of it.

This will be a very great for me.

With Regards

Srikanta Pradhan
Research Scholar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna,India. [www.iitp.ac.in]
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Hey, sounds like a good project, I hope to see your results eventually
posted here.

You can get the source code from https://github.com/freenet/fred

Once you compile/use the precompiled installer, you should be able to
set the network security to settings to High, and be in a darknet mode.
This would separate you from the Opennet and you will not be able to
access any of the Freenet content, unless on of your darknet peers has
access to the Opennet. By setting up multiple nodes all connected in a
darknet fashion with Network Security set to High you will be separate
from the rest of Freenet and you can conduct your own tests.

You can also run multiple nodes on the same computer by changing the
port and peerid. Stop by IRC #freenode for help setting it up, most of
the developers will be happy to assist.

Thanks for using our project for your PhD.

Post by Srikanta Pradhan
Hello Freenet,
I am Srikanta Pradhan, doing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Patna
[An university at India] on security analysis of decentralized P2P system.
I am studying the freenet and its behavior. I have used the simulator in
our research lab for this purpose. As we are not allowed to use any P2P
software/website in our university.
Yesterday I came to know from the IRC chat #freenet that a testbed can be
possible. We have several machines here, where I want to install FREENET
for research purpose and verify their behavior in different conditions as
simulated. I need to create a live FREENET netwrok, a private one [not
connected to any other netwrok/internet] and modify them and observe their
patterns.
But I have not found any materials and also the source code of FREENET.
Can you kindly help me here to create a testbed i.e. to get the source
code of it, the materials for installing as privately, how to make changes
at different layers of it.
This will be a very great for me.
With Regards
Srikanta Pradhan
Research Scholar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna,India. [www.iitp.ac.in]
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CCing to the development mailing list as scientific work deserves to be there.
Perhaps sign up for that list as well to ensure you get all mails, and
afterwards check the web archive for any you might have missed.

Post by Srikanta Pradhan
Hello Freenet,
I am Srikanta Pradhan, doing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Patna
[An university at India] on security analysis of decentralized P2P system.
I am studying the freenet and its behavior. I have used the simulator in
our research lab for this purpose. As we are not allowed to use any P2P
software/website in our university.
Yesterday I came to know from the IRC chat #freenet that a testbed can be
possible. We have several machines here, where I want to install FREENET
for research purpose and verify their behavior in different conditions as
simulated. I need to create a live FREENET netwrok, a private one [not
connected to any other netwrok/internet] and modify them and observe their
patterns.
But I have not found any materials and also the source code of FREENET.
Can you kindly help me here to create a testbed i.e. to get the source
code of it, the materials for installing as privately, how to make changes
at different layers of it.
This will be a very great for me.
With Regards
Srikanta Pradhan
Research Scholar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna,India. [www.iitp.ac.in]

Thanks for your interest in this!
It seems you were already pointed to the code on GitHub, so here's something
about the aspect of simulations:

Luckily, Matthew Toseland aka toad has recently done very much simulation work
as his dissertation, so you have a scientific paper to get started with!

It is linked in the pull request with his simulator improvements:
https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/576

It may take a while until this is merged since it's lots of work to review and
we don't have very many reviewers. Matthew currently doesn't have much time to
contribute to Freenet as well so:
- Help with spotting bugs would be encouraged :)
- It seems nobody has actually read his paper yet to e.g. find potential
improvements to Freenet. So if you run into any of those, it would be good to
start a discussion about them here; or even file a pull request against the
code itself to fix them.

I've put Matthew CC on so he notices this.

Please keep us up to date, for example post your paper to the development
mailing list once it is done, and report any security issues you encounter.

And finally: Most of our daily discussion happens on IRC. If you want to
permanently join development, I would recommend setting up a bouncer in our
channel and reporting about your progress every once in a while. It may take
people some hours to answer, but they will do so usually :)

Thanks!