customize your own port

Question

Hi, i'm just wondering whether i can assign the port that i want when creating a new chain, instead of getting the multichain to randomly generate one for you. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, you have a couple of ways of doing this:

• Pass a -default-network-port=12345 command-line parameter to multichain-util when preparing the chain.
• Modify the params.dat file between calling multichain-util and running multichaind for the first time.

More information on customizing blockchain parameters is provided here: http://www.multichain.com/developers/blockchain-parameters/

 

Note also that individual nodes can use a different port if they choose to, via the port runtime parameter: http://www.multichain.com/developers/runtime-parameters/