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 }