cmd, node: initialize ports with --instance #2298
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Description
This PR adds a new CLI flag called
--instance <value>
, used to configure ports when running multiple nodes on the same machine to avoid port conflicts. This is only applicable forport, authrpc.port, discovery,port, http.port, ws.port
.The calculation of port numbers is as follows:
In a scenario where the user specify both
--instance
and the supported port list (i.e.port, authrpc.port, ...
), then the ports specified will supersede the port values configured by--instance
.Example
Usage:
geth --instance 2
Usage:
geth --instance 2 --authrpc.port 8551
Usage:
geth --instance 201
Credits
This flag is inspired by reth.