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- | **We need as many people as possible to be sure they have port forwarding setup on as many of their nodes as possible! This will ensure the network growth doesn' | + | **We need as many people as possible to be sure they have port forwarding setup on as many of their nodes as possible!** This will ensure the network growth doesn' |
- | We expect there to be significant growth over the next 6-12 months, so we need everyone to be aware of this, and to help us as much as possible with port forwarding and sharing the newly port forwarded | + | We expect there to be significant growth over the next 6-12 months, so we need everyone to be aware of this, and to help us as much as possible with port forwarding and sharing the new internet IP and port connections with the rest of the network by adding a peer with that information. |
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Let’s say your home's external IP is 1.2.3.4 and you have 3 nodes on my your LAN on 192.x.x.x with correct port forwarding and ports 12392, 22392, and 32392. You would then go to another node and **ADD PEER** and add **1.2.3.4: | Let’s say your home's external IP is 1.2.3.4 and you have 3 nodes on my your LAN on 192.x.x.x with correct port forwarding and ports 12392, 22392, and 32392. You would then go to another node and **ADD PEER** and add **1.2.3.4: | ||
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+ | "Add Peer" has always been a bit hit and miss, particularly in knowing if it has worked or not. If you find that the entry doesn’t appear in the peer list, you only need to worry about this if you are getting less than 32 connections on the laptop node though. If you have 32 connections then everything is set up correctly and there' | ||
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+ | The “Add Peer” method is to inform the network that you are running a Qortal node on a port other than the default 12392. If it's on the default, the network will find it automatically, | ||
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+ | “Add Peer” may need to be retried if it doesn' | ||
Go to the [[Port Forwarding]] page under the How-To Guides for more information. | Go to the [[Port Forwarding]] page under the How-To Guides for more information. |