4-networking.md

Networking

So far we have only run a single validator. What happens if it stops working or loses its data? We're much better off running multiple nodes in parallel!

Getting Started

Let's configure a local chain with two full accounts:

burrow spec -f2 | burrow configure -s- --pool

You'll notice that Burrow has generated two config files instead of one, hold on to these.

First Node

burrow start --config=burrow000.toml

You will see blockpool has no peers in the logs, this means that the node has not got enough validator power in order to have quorum (2/3) on the network, so it is blocked waiting for the second validator to join.

Second Node

burrow start --config=burrow001.toml

If the connection succeeds, you will see empty blocks automatically created. Look for logs such as Sending vote message or Finalizing commit of block with 0 txs.

You can also query the consensus state over our RPC with:

curl -s 127.0.0.1:26758/consensus