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I'm running an ethereum (with geth) and a parity instance on 2 nodes, using similar genesis files for both. I've also specified the geth node's enode ID as bootnode for parity. Yet the 2 nodes are unable to detect each other.

geth.genesis:

{
"nonce": "0x0000000000000042",
"difficulty": "0x4",
"alloc": {
    "6a5b342ec71def8aac337b82969d9ddd811023c9": {
        "balance": "5000000000000000000000000"
    }
},
"mixhash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"coinbase": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"timestamp": "0x00",
"parentHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"extraData": "0x1100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"gasLimit": "0xFFFF0000"
}

parity.genesis:

{
"name": "node",
"engine": {
      "Ethash": {
              "params": {
                      "gasLimitBoundDivisor": "0x0400",
                      "minimumDifficulty": "0x4",
                      "difficultyBoundDivisor": "0x0800",
                      "durationLimit": "0x0a",
                      "blockReward": "0x4563918244F40000",
                      "registrar": "",
                      "frontierCompatibilityModeLimit": "0x0"
              }
      }
},
"params": {
      "accountStartNonce": "0x0000000000000042",
      "maximumExtraDataSize": "0x20",
      "minGasLimit": "0xFFFF0000",
      "networkID" : "0x16"
},
"genesis": {
      "seal": {
              "ethereum": {
                      "nonce": "0x0000000000000042",
                      "mixHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
              }
      },
      "difficulty": "0x4",
      "author": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
      "timestamp": "0x00",
      "parentHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
      "extraData": "0x1100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
      "gasLimit": "0xFFFF0000"
},
"nodes": [
],
"accounts": {
      "6a5b342ec71def8aac337b82969d9ddd811023c9": { "balance": "5000000000000000000000000" }

Does anyone have an idea about what might be going wrong? I even tried the route of copying parity.genesis to geth.genesis but to no avail. I'm successfully able to connect 2 geth nodes or 2 parity nodes to each-other however.

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  • If you add the nodes to each other client, what's the log output?
    – q9f
    Jan 9, 2017 at 13:20
  • Surprisingly, manually adding the parity node with admin.addPeer() in geth cli works! What can be the reason for this behaviour?
    – Vishesh Garg
    Jan 9, 2017 at 15:51
  • The parity peer however disconnected once I started mining for blocks in geth, with the following log 2017-01-09 21:17:45 Stage 1 block verification failed for 6fd5…b968: Block(InvalidGasLimit(OutOfBounds { min: Some(4294901760), max: None, found: 4290707521 })). In fact, the block gas limit declined from 4294901760 in block 0 to 4290707521 in block 1. What can be the reason for this behavior?
    – Vishesh Garg
    Jan 9, 2017 at 16:07
  • Are you defining the target gas limit when running geth?
    – q9f
    Jan 9, 2017 at 23:17
  • No, I'm defining no others parameters apart from those in the genesis files shown above.
    – Vishesh Garg
    Jan 10, 2017 at 5:22

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The connection will drop if they are on different chains, you can run Parity with -lsync=trace to see what is going on.

It probably has to do with hard fork transitions, Geth does not include them by default. Have a look here and try using the linked generator.

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  • Thanks a lot! I had manually converted the file to parity format, being unaware of this tool. If possible, it would be helpful to have an online version of it, just like Parity Config Generator, as it requires quite a lot of things to be installed for one time use.
    – Vishesh Garg
    Jan 10, 2017 at 10:38

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