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Configure Topology Files

Before you start your nodes, you need to prepare the topology files for block-producing and relay nodes.

Configure the block-producing node#

Make the block-producing node to "talk" only to YOUR relay node. Do not forget to configure your firewall also:

nano mainnet-topology.json
{
"Producers": [
{
"addr": "<RELAY IP ADDRESS>",
"port": <PORT>,
"valency": 1
}
]
}

Configure the relay node:#

Make your relay node talk to your block-producing node and other relays in the network by editing the topology.json file:

nano mainnet-topology.json
{
"Producers": [
{
"addr": "<BLOCK-PRODUCING IP ADDRESS>",
"port": <PORT>,
"valency": 1
},
{
"addr": "<IP ADDRESS>",
"port": <PORT>,
"valency": 1
},
{
"addr": "<IP ADDRESS>",
"port": <PORT>,
"valency": 1
}
]
}

Optionally you can use topologyUpdater.sh on your relay nodes from Guild Operators#

Until full P2P is live we need to manually add peers in the topology.json file on relay nodes. You can automate this by running the topologyUpdater.sh script from Guild Operators. With the help of this script, you can also speed up your relay's registrations (currently registration is done twice per day based on your pool registration). If you run topologyUpdater.sh every 60 minutes on your relay nodes using cron, then after 3 hours (or 4 runs) your relays will be registered. And most importantly, it can generate a topology.json which will contain remote peers. Find more details here.

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