Cardano P2P Deployment

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Cardano P2P Deployment

The below instruction covers how to deploy P2P functionality to Cardano relay nodes and disable legacy manual Topology-Updater functionality.

IMPORTANT: P2P on mainnet is only intended to be ran on a single relay at this time. (v1.35.7) Continue to run any other relays with P2P disabled using the legacy topology.

Github Repository:

P2P Configuration

terminal:~$ cd $CNODE_HOME/files

terminal:~$ mv topology.json topology.json.bk

terminal:~$ wget https://book.world.dev.cardano.org/environments/mainnet/topology-p2p.json

terminal:~$ mv topology-p2p.json topology.json

Add block producer and second relay to the localRoots section:

#Check our sample topology.json in the repository section for guidance.

terminal:~$ vi topology.json

  "localRoots": [
    {
      "accessPoints": [
        {
            "address": "BlockProducerIP",
            "port": 6001
        },
        {
            "address": "SecondRelayIP",
            "port": 6002
        }
      ],
      "advertise": false,
      "valency": 1
    }
  ],

Add P2P flag configuration to the config.json cofiguration file:

terminal:~$ cd $CNODE_HOME/files

terminal:~$ vi config.json

"EnableP2P": true,

#There are additional settings that can be added to the the config.json file. Check those here.[1].

Disable legacy Topology-Updater functionality:

terminal:~$ cd $CNODE_HOME/scripts

terminal:~$ chmod -x topologyUpdater.sh

terminal:~$ sudo systemctl stop cnode-tu-fetch.service

terminal:~$ sudo systemctl stop cnode-tu-restart.timer

terminal:~$ sudo systemctl stop cnode-tu-restart.service

terminal:~$ sudo systemctl disable cnode-tu-fetch.service

terminal:~$ sudo systemctl disable cnode-tu-restart.timer

terminal:~$sudo systemctl disable cnode-tu-restart.service

terminal:~$sudo systemctl restart cnode.service

References:

https://book.world.dev.cardano.org/environments.html

https://docs.cardano.org/explore-cardano/cardano-network/p2p-networking

https://cardano-community.github.io/guild-operators/Scripts/topologyupdater/

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