Eugene Kabanov c9b54bf1aa
Enable IPv6 for discovery5 using dualstack support. (#6242)
* Make listen-address default to use dualstack.

* Use correct newProtocol().

* Bump nim-eth.

* Bump nim-eth one more time.

* Use `*` instead of IPv6 address for dualstack sockets.

* Bump chronos and nim-eth.

* Use new constructor.

* Fix listenAddress should be Opt[T] not Option[T].

* Fix options.md.
2024-05-01 19:29:39 +00:00
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Networking

This folders hold a collection of modules to:

  • configure the Eth2 P2P network
  • discover, connect, and maintain quality Eth2 peers

Data received is handed other to the ../gossip_processing modules for validation.

Security concerns

  • Collusion: part of the peer selection must be kept random. This avoids peers bringing all their friends and colluding against a beacon node.
  • Denial-of-service: The beacon node must provide ways to handle burst of data that may come:
    • from malicious nodes trying to DOS us
    • from long periods of non-finality, creating lots of forks, attestations, forks