net disconnect

Command

clio net disconnect <host> [OPTIONS]

Description

Close an existing connection to a specified peer. A node operator can use this command to instruct a node to disconnect from another peer.

Synopsis

clio net disconnect
  <host>                           # REQUIRED: The hostname:port to disconnect from
  [-h | --help]                    # Print this help message and exit

Usage

Prerequisites

• Install the currently supported version of clio.

note

| The clio tool is bundled with the Wire software. Installing Wire core will install the clio and kiod command line tools.

• You have access to a producing node instance with the net_api_plugin loaded.

Examples

The following examples demonstrate how to use the clio net disconnect command

• Instruct local node listening at http address http://127.0.0.1:8887 to disconnect from peer node listening at p2p address devnet-0:4444 (where devnet-0 is mapped to 123.456.78.90 in /etc/hosts):

  clio -u http://127.0.0.1:8887 net disconnect devnet-0:4444

  Output:

  "connection removed"

Note: If any of the above commands are re-executed, clio returns the following message as expected:

"no known connection for host"