This page describes how to set up a local cluster of nodes, advise how to make it private,and how to hook up your nodes on the eth-netstat network monitoring app. A fullycontrolled ethereum network is useful as a backend for network integration testing (coredevelopers working on issues related to networking/blockchain synching/messagepropagation, etc or DAPP developers testing multi-block and multi-user scenarios).

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Setting up multiple nodes

In order to run multiple ethereum nodes locally, you have to make sure:

• each instance has a separate data directory (--datadir)
• each instance runs on a different port (both eth and rpc) (--port and --rpcport)
• in case of a cluster the instances must know about each other
• the ipc endpoint is unique or the ipc interface is disabled (--ipcpath or --ipcdisable)

They help prove that a transaction was actually signed by the sender and prevent forgeries. Your private key is what you use to sign transactions, so it grants you custody over the funds associated with your account. You never really hold cryptocurrency, you hold private keys – the funds are always on Ethereum's ledger. This website contains a sequential database of all Ethereum private keys, spread out on pages of 128 keys each. The key to every wallet, including Vitalik Buterin's wallet, are hidden in one of the pages. Ethereum wallets can also contain altcoins.

You start the first node (let’s make port explicit and disable ipc interface)

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We started the node with the console, so that we can grab the enode url for instance:

[::] will be parsed as localhost (127.0.0.1). If your nodes are on a local networkcheck each individual host machine and find your ip with ifconfig (on Linux and MacOS):

If your peers are not on the local network, you need to know your external IP address (usea service) to construct the enode url.

Now you can launch a second node with:

If you want to connect this instance to the previously started node you can add it as apeer from the console with admin.addPeer(enodeUrlOfFirstInstance).

You can test the connection by typing in geth console:

Local cluster

As an extention of the above, you can spawn a local cluster of nodes easily. It can alsobe scripted including account creation which is needed for mining. Seegethcluster.sh script, and the README therefor usage and examples.

Private network

Setup bootnode

The first time a node connects to the network it uses one of the predefinedbootnodes.Through these bootnodes a node can join the network and find other nodes. In the case of aprivate cluster these predefined bootnodes are not of much use. Therefore go-ethereumoffers a bootnode implementation that can be configured and run in your private network.

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As can be seen the bootnode asks for a key. Each ethereum node, including a bootnode isidentified by an enode identifier. These identifiers are derived from a key. Therefore youwill need to give the bootnode such key. Since we currently don’t have one we can instructthe bootnode to generate a key (and store it in a file) before it starts.

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The stored key can be seen with:

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To instruct geth nodes to use our own bootnode(s) use the --bootnodes flag. This is acomma separated list of bootnode enode identifiers.

(what [::] means is explained previously)

Since it is convenient to start the bootnode each time with the same enode we can give thebootnode program the just generated key on the next time it is started.

or

Monitoring your nodes

This page describes how to use theThe Ethereum (centralised) network status monitor. to monitor your nodes.

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This page or this READMEdescribes how you set up your own monitoring service for a (private or public) localcluster.