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port_forwarding_upnp [07/17/2022 09:33] – gfactorport_forwarding_upnp [07/21/2022 10:07] – caldescent
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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 **1.2.3.4:22392** and **1.2.3.4:32392** in your node, which will then broadcast to the rest of the Qortal network that there is an available peer that can be connected to on those ports. Then the rest of the network will be aware of it automatically, and you'll get full peers on your nodes. 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 **1.2.3.4:22392** and **1.2.3.4:32392** in your node, which will then broadcast to the rest of the Qortal network that there is an available peer that can be connected to on those ports. Then the rest of the network will be aware of it automatically, and you'll get full peers on your nodes.
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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's no need to add the peer. 
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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, but if it's on something other than 12392 the other nodes won't know which port to connect to, and so that node won't receive inbound connections. Adding it as a node solves this, as it announces the port to the network. This can't be done automatically as the node itself doesn't generally know its external port - only the router and the user know that. Once a node has 32 connections it means its getting the full amount of inbound connections (assuming default settings) and therefore the network must know about the custom external port.
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 +“Add Peer” may need to be retried if it doesn't work the first time. It might take a while to propagate the network, so may require checking back an hour or so later.
  
 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. 
port_forwarding_upnp.txt · Last modified: 11/23/2022 19:15 by gfactor

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