Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

cmd/bootnode: remove bootnode utility #30813

Merged
merged 4 commits into from
Nov 28, 2024
Merged
Changes from 1 commit
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
Prev Previous commit
Next Next commit
README: update readme
  • Loading branch information
MariusVanDerWijden committed Nov 26, 2024
commit 209b18ec2af72e5bc47f02a1d9130b942f6ce08d
13 changes: 9 additions & 4 deletions README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ directory.
| `clef` | Stand-alone signing tool, which can be used as a backend signer for `geth`. |
| `devp2p` | Utilities to interact with nodes on the networking layer, without running a full blockchain. |
| `abigen` | Source code generator to convert Ethereum contract definitions into easy-to-use, compile-time type-safe Go packages. It operates on plain [Ethereum contract ABIs](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/develop/abi-spec.html) with expanded functionality if the contract bytecode is also available. However, it also accepts Solidity source files, making development much more streamlined. Please see our [Native DApps](https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/developers/dapp-developer/native-bindings) page for details. |
| `bootnode` | Utility to create a nodekey that can be used to get a static enode for bootnodes. |
| `evm` | Developer utility version of the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) that is capable of running bytecode snippets within a configurable environment and execution mode. Its purpose is to allow isolated, fine-grained debugging of EVM opcodes (e.g. `evm --code 60ff60ff --debug run`). |
| `rlpdump` | Developer utility tool to convert binary RLP ([Recursive Length Prefix](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/data-structures-and-encoding/rlp)) dumps (data encoding used by the Ethereum protocol both network as well as consensus wise) to user-friendlier hierarchical representation (e.g. `rlpdump --hex CE0183FFFFFFC4C304050583616263`). |

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -270,16 +269,22 @@ start a bootstrap node that others can use to find each other in your network an
the internet. The clean way is to configure and run a dedicated bootnode:

```shell
$ bootnode --genkey=boot.key
$ geth --nodekey=boot.key
# Use the devp2p tool to create a node file.
# The devp2p tool is also part of the 'alltools' distribution bundle.
$ devp2p key generate node1.key
# file node1.key is created.
$ devp2p key to-enr -ip 10.2.3.4 -udp 30303 -tcp 30303 node1.key
# Prints the ENR for use in --bootnode flag of other nodes.
# Note this method requires knowing the IP/ports ahead of time.
$ geth --nodekey=node1.key
```

With the bootnode online, it will display an [`enode` URL](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/networking-layer/network-addresses/#enode)
that other nodes can use to connect to it and exchange peer information. Make sure to
replace the displayed IP address information (most probably `[::]`) with your externally
accessible IP to get the actual `enode` URL.

*Note: You could previously use the bootnode utility to start a stripped down version of geth. This is not possible anymore.*
*Note: You could previously use the `bootnode` utility to start a stripped down version of geth. This is not possible anymore.*

#### Starting up your member nodes

Expand Down