@savid/rlpx-pest v1.2.2

@savid/rlpx-pest

Get the status of a RLPx peer via the eth/66 protocol.

This package is adapted from the @ethereumjs/devp2p project.

Requirements

• NodeJS v18+
• ESM only

Install

npm install --save @savid/rlpx-pest

Usage

import pest from '@savid/rlpx-pest';

try {
  const status = await pest({
    enode: 'enode://6f8a80d14311c39f35f516fa664deaaaa13e85b2f7493f37f6144d86991ec012937307647bd3b9a82abe2974e1407241d54947bbb39763a4cac9f77166ad92a0@10.3.58.6:30303',
  });
} catch (error) {
  console.log('something happened', error.code);
}

API

function pest(options: {
  // Enode https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/networking-layer/network-addresses#enode
  enode: string;
  // connection timeout
  timeout?: number;
}): Response;

// status https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/caps/eth.md#status-0x00
type Response = {
  // integer identifying the blockchain, see table below
  networkId: bigint;
  // total difficulty of the best chain. Integer, as found in block header.
  td: bigint;
  // the hash of the best (i.e. highest TD) known block
  bestHash: string;
  // the hash of the genesis block
  genesisHash: string;
  // EIP-2124 fork identifier
  fork?: {
    hash: string;
    next: string;
  };
  // peer client id
  client?: string;
};

example response;

{
  networkId: 1n,
  td: 56495485781309105821794n,
  bestHash: '0xe125949899e443bbf1f26b8a89c40f2ac6b504c648b4f90cc79f19738d9a38fd',
  genesisHash: '0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3',
  fork: { hash: '0xf0afd0e3', next: '0x00' },
  client: 'Geth/v1.10.20-stable-8f2416a8/linux-amd64/go1.17.10',
}

Error codes

License

MIT