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- | **We need as many people as possible | + | Please go to the [[Port Forwarding]] page under the How-To Guides for more information |
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- | 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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- | **Port Forwarding:** a router setting to allow INCOMING connections to your Qortal Node. This greatly benefits | + | |
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- | Recently, we have made a change in the Qortal Core, that will allow the use of what's called uPnP or (Universal Plug and Play). What this means, is that if uPnP is enabled on your router | + | |
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- | Now, uPnP only works for the FIRST node on a network, | + | |
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- | **Node 1** Internal: 12392 External: 12392 | + | |
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- | **Node 2** Internal: 12392 External: 22392 | + | |
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- | **Node 3** Internal: 12392 External: 32392 | + | |
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- | This would allow 3 separate incoming connections on the same outside internet IP address, to connect to each Qortal node. Here’s something that most people may not know: by default, Qortal will check for port 12392, so if you have the default port open, the network will know and attempt to connect to your node. However, if your node is on a DIFFERENT port, from multiple port forwards on the same LAN. | + | |
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- | For example, with port 22392, Qortal will NOT by default know this UNLESS you ADD PEER from another node AND add the peer with your external **internet IP** (which you can find easily by going to https:// | + | |
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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: | + | |
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- | "Add Peer" has always been a bit hit and miss, particularly in knowing if it has worked or not. 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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- | Go to the [[Port Forwarding]] page under the How-To Guides for more information. | + |