Big thanks to Alexd1985 for the guide and two questions

[Fawah]

Spent hrs trying to get my NODE and POOL up, thanks to Alexd1985’s guide it finally clicked. I could not though get the wallets to work (tried everything, couldn’t get bech32 to cooperate) so had to create wallets from CNODE, no biggy. I did learn quite a bit, starting from basically zero.

My ?s, everything looks like its working, I can find myself on Eternl wallet, pooltool.io/, etc but no TX traffic, is that normal for a new NODE/CORE?

Also, I have 20/20 peers connected to relay, Served is steadily ticking up, half RTT in the red, is this a bad thing for my production NODE (IE taking need resources from it?).

[Alexd1985]

Hi,

Thanks;
Because of RAM consumption the TraceMempool by default is set to false (inside configuration file)

If u have enough RAM (~12G) then set TraceMempool to true and restart the node

Cheers,

[Alexd1985]

Regarding the bech32 issue you can try these steps

ERROR: bech32 and/or cardano-address not found in '$PATH'

You must have the cardano-address and bech32 files in cd ~/.cabal/bin ls -l If not u need to rebuild the node ghcup - -version ghcup install ghc 8.10.2 ghcup set ghc 8.10.2 Check again ghcup - -version ghcup install cabal 3.2.0.0 ghcup set cabal 3.2.0.0 - check the version cabal - -version ( should be 3.2.0.0) - stop the node sudo systemctl stop cnode cd ~/git cd cardano-node git fetch --tags --all git checkout 1.27.0 echo -e “package cardano-crypto-praos\n flags: -external-libsodiu…

PS: just follow the steps but replace the version 1.27.0 with 1.35.4 (first check if u have bech32 and cardano-address inside cabal folder and also u can try with

and don’t forget to install chrony on all nodes (search for chrony section)

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