August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
11h 19m
English
Content preview from Ethereum Cookbook
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How to do it...
- Verify your installation by running the following version command:
$ geth version
- Start your node with the following command:
$ geth
This will start an Ethereum node and will connect with the main network. As soon as it finds any peer nodes, it will start downloading the blocks from them.
You can configure the parameters before starting a node. This will help you do things like connect to a different network, expose APIs, and much more. Let's look at a sample initialization and the parameters used in it:
$ geth --networkid 3 --datadir "./ropsten-db" --keystore "./ropsten-keys" --syncmode "fast" --rpc --rpcport "8546" --rpcapi "web3,eth,miner,admin" --rpccorsdomain "*" --port 30301 console
Let's look into each parameter ...