Reduce number of Out Peers

Staking & Delegation Operate a Stake Pool
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Hi,

I am using cntools here. I managed to upgrade to 1.29.0.
I tried to add 14 custom peers in the topologyupdater.sh where all of them closer to my pool and I have reduce Max Peer to . however after that I get 29 out peers connection which previously only 18. I tried to delete all entry in topology.json and restart the node but the outcome is same I got many connection. I also tried to reduce Max Peer parameter in topologyupdater.sh

How can I reduce my number of peer connection yet I can add customs peers ?

Regards,
Setiaman

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MAX_PEERS=15                # Maximum number of peers to return on successful fetch (note that a single peer may include valency of up to 3)

set the MAX_PEERS= 1 or 2
comment the line
#MAX_PEERS=15

save the file, restart the node

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Thanks @Alexd1985 it works.
However I my IN has loop from the same IP. Will it be a problem? In V1.27.0 no additional Private IP.

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Should not be a problem, it will dissapear in time

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I had to comment out all custom peers for max_peers to work properly. Just adding on.