Manually Connect to a Specific Peer
Use these steps to manually connect your server to a specific peer in the XRP Ledger network.
Tip
If you want to make sure your server automatically connects to this server on startup and remains connected later, you may want to configure a peer reservation for that peer.
Prerequisites
- You must know the IP address of the peer you want to connect to.
- You must know what port the peer you want to connect to uses for the XRP Ledger peer protocol. The default config file uses port 51235.
- You must have a network connection from your server to the peer. For example, the peer server must forward the appropriate port through its firewall.
- The peer server must have available peer slots. If the peer is already at its maximum number of peers, you can ask the peer server's operator to add a peer reservation for your server.
Steps
To connect, use the connect method. For example:
{ "command": "connect", "ip": "169.54.2.151", "port": 51235 }