Test connections between nodes

You can get a list of all connected nodes by running ax nodes inspect or selecting the Peers tab in the Node Manager.

Node Manager

The Peers view displays all peers of the selected node.

CLI

Example Usage

ax nodes inspect 192.168.1.219
PeerId: 12D3KooWSgvc3hzrsuExYazNDB1BU3gevUPTzaumnwHWv5yFBNzH
SwarmAddrs:
    /ip4/192.168.1.219/tcp/4001
    /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
    /ip6/::1/tcp/4001
AnnounceAddrs:
    /ip4/192.168.1.219/tcp/4001/p2p/12D3KooWSgvc3hzrsuExYazNDB1BU3gevUPTzaumnwHWv5yFBNzH
AdminAddrs:
    /ip4/192.168.1.219/tcp/4458
Connections:
+------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PEERID                                               | ADDRESS                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 12D3KooWSVZEwAqdcJEG2T3wR8CZZoneWFyPqpRsxSzVB3WLwtVt | /ip4/192.168.1.165/tcp/4001/p2p/12D3KooWSVZEwAqdcJEG2T3wR8CZZoneWFyPqpRsxSzVB3WLwtVt |
+------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Addresses:
+------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PEERID                                               | ADDRESS                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 12D3KooWSVZEwAqdcJEG2T3wR8CZZoneWFyPqpRsxSzVB3WLwtVt | /ip6/::1/tcp/4001/p2p/12D3KooWSVZEwAqdcJEG2T3wR8CZZoneWFyPqpRsxSzVB3WLwtVt           |
|                                                      | /ip4/192.168.1.165/tcp/4001/p2p/12D3KooWSVZEwAqdcJEG2T3wR8CZZoneWFyPqpRsxSzVB3WLwtVt |
|                                                      | /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001/p2p/12D3KooWSVZEwAqdcJEG2T3wR8CZZoneWFyPqpRsxSzVB3WLwtVt     |
+------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The output above shows you:

• PeerId: Peer ID of your node
• SwarmAddrs: Addresses that the Swarm API bound to
• AnnounceAddrs: Addresses that your node is announcing to other nodes for reaching its Swarm API (SwarmAddrs)
• adminAddrs: Addresses that the Admin API bound to (for interaction with CLI or Node Manager)
• Connections: List of active connections to peers, identified by peer ID and address
• knownPeers: List of all peers, identified by peer ID and address, that your node knows