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**Option 1:** In this case, you only have ONE device that is acting as a blockchain node for Qortal AND your router has uPnP enabled. The default settings that your node will have comes with uPnP enabled - uPnP is a feature that most common routers provide by default. If you are unsure, ask your service provider. With uPnP enabled in the router, and only ONE node running on your home network, you do NOT need to configure anything further on this guide. | **Option 1:** In this case, you only have ONE device that is acting as a blockchain node for Qortal AND your router has uPnP enabled. The default settings that your node will have comes with uPnP enabled - uPnP is a feature that most common routers provide by default. If you are unsure, ask your service provider. With uPnP enabled in the router, and only ONE node running on your home network, you do NOT need to configure anything further on this guide. | ||
- | **Option 2:** If your router does NOT offer uPNP, you will need to port forward AND disable | + | If you ARE going to use uPnP, **you can have MULTIPLE nodes** on the same LAN obtaining incoming connections **via uPnP** by simply modifying a SINGLE setting |
- | 1) Stop the core: | + | < |
- | <code>cd qortal && ./ | + | { |
- | + | " | |
- | 2) Open your settings.json - this may be blank which indicates you have the default settings. You will then copy and paste the code below into the settings.json and click save: | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
} | } | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | If you have settings | + | The above settings |
- | 3) Login to your router and set the IP address of the node to " | + | **Option 2:** If your router does NOT offer uPNP, you will need to configure port forwarding (on your router) AND disable the default uPnP in your settings.json (on your node): |
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+ | 1) Stop the core on your node by opening the command terminal and entering: | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | |||
+ | 2) Login to your router and set the IP address of the node to " | ||
4) In your router, configure port forwarding for this device: | 4) In your router, configure port forwarding for this device: | ||
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Protocol: TCP | Protocol: TCP | ||
- | 5) Start your core: | ||
- | < | ||
- | + | ===== More Than One Node On Your Home Network | |
- | ===== More Than One Node On Your Home Network ===== | + | |
If you have more than one node on your network, then you’ll want to: | If you have more than one node on your network, then you’ll want to: | ||
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+ | * Set a static IP address for each node in the router. | ||
+ | * Configure port forwarding in the router for each node. | ||
- | * Stop the core, then change the json settings on each node. **Please note: the json will have a unique entry on each of your nodes.** | + | 1) Set the IP address of each node to STATIC. This will prevent the node’s IP address from changing and affecting all of this configuration. |
- | * Disable uPnP in the router (if it is a feature in your router and already enabled). | + | |
- | * Configure port forwarding in the router for each node. | + | |
- | * Start the core on each node. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | 1) Stop the core on each node: | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | + | ||
- | 2) Pay attention to which node you are going to number as Node 1, Node 2, and so on. Each node will have a DIFFERENT listenPort setting. Open your settings.json for Node 1 - this will be blank which indicates you have the default settings. You will then modify your json settings: | + | |
- | + | ||
- | **Node 1:** | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | } | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | + | ||
- | What we are doing here, is adding a listen port entry for each node that correlates with the port forwarding in step 3 below. **Please note: the final entry does NOT have a comma after as we see with 12392 above. This is correct.** If you have settings already displayed, look for the uPnPEnabled section, if it exists, simply replace ' | + | |
- | + | ||
- | **Node 2:** | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | } | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | + | ||
- | Note that Node 2 has a DIFFERENT listenPort number than Node 1, which will match the settings in your router for port forwarding as shown in step 3 below. If you have settings already displayed, look for the uPnPEnabled section, if it exists, simply replace ' | + | |
- | + | ||
- | **Node 3:** | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | } | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | + | ||
- | If you have settings already displayed, look for the uPnPEnabled section, if it exists, simply replace ' | + | |
- | + | ||
- | **Node 4:** | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | } | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | + | ||
- | If you have settings already displayed, look for the uPnPEnabled section, if it exists, simply replace ' | + | |
- | + | ||
- | 3) Login to your router and set the IP address of each node to STATIC. This will prevent the node’s IP address from changing and affecting all of this configuration. | + | |
- | 4) Set port forwarding for each node as shown in the following. Internal and external for each node will be unique and NOT match the other nodes: | + | 2) Set port forwarding for each node as shown in the following. Internal and external for each node will be unique and NOT match the other nodes: |
- | **Node 1:: Internal: 12392 External: 12392 | + | **Node 1** Internal: 12392 External: 12392 |
- | **Node 2** Internal: | + | **Node 2** Internal: |
- | **Node 3** Internal: | + | **Node 3** Internal: |
- | **Node 4** Internal: | + | **Node 4** Internal: |
etc. | etc. | ||
- | (Just change the last digit in each number.) | + | (Just change the last digit in each number |
- | 5. Start the core on each node: | ||
- | < | ||
=====Third Party Guides===== | =====Third Party Guides===== |