# Connect to other peers *Note that this tutorial describes how to **configure** a node to connect to other peers before running the node. For connecting a running node to existing peers, see the [JSON-RPC API](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/16/).* There are currently three options. Note that each of these options can be used in combination with any of the other two. In other words, it is possible to configure a node to connect to a static list of peers and to discover such peer lists using DNS discovery and discover and connect to random peers using discovery v5 with a bootstrap node. ## Option 1: Configure peers statically Static peers can be provided to a nwaku node on startup using the `--staticnode` CLI parameter. The `--staticnode` option can be repeated for each peer you want to connect to on startup. ```sh ./build/wakunode2 \ --staticnode: \ --staticnode: ``` As an example, consider a nwaku node that connects to two known peers on the same local host (with IP `0.0.0.0`) with TCP ports `60002` and `60003`, and peer IDs `16Uiu2HAkzjwwgEAXfeGNMKFPSpc6vGBRqCdTLG5q3Gmk2v4pQw7H` and `16Uiu2HAmFBA7LGtwY5WVVikdmXVo3cKLqkmvVtuDu63fe8safeQJ` respectively. ```sh ./build/wakunode2 \ --staticnode:/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/60002/p2p/16Uiu2HAkzjwwgEAXfeGNMKFPSpc6vGBRqCdTLG5q3Gmk2v4pQw7H \ --staticnode:/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/60003/p2p/16Uiu2HAmFBA7LGtwY5WVVikdmXVo3cKLqkmvVtuDu63fe8safeQJ ``` ## Option 2: Discover peers using DNS discovery A node can discover other nodes to connect to using DNS-based discovery. For a quickstart guide on how to configure DNS discovery, see [this tutorial](./configure-dns-disc.md). There is also a [more comprehensive tutorial](../../tutorial/dns-disc.md) for advanced users. ## Option 3: Discover peers using Waku Discovery v5 Enable Discovery v5 using the `--discv5-discovery` option. It is possible to configure bootstrap entries for the Discovery v5 routing table using the `--discv5-bootstrap-node` option repeatedly. ```sh ./build/wakunode2 \ --discv5-discovery:true \ --discv5-bootstrap-node: \ --discv5-bootstrap-node: ``` Note that if Discovery v5 is enabled and used in conjunction with DNS-based discovery, the nwaku node will attempt to bootstrap the Discovery v5 routing table with ENRs extracted from the peers discovered via DNS.