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Questions about devp2p, the secure networking suite used by Ethereum.

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Why does java Ethereum use UDP? - isn't devp2p TCP only

However the Devp2p specs say it is TCP only and indeed TCP is used for communication once nodes are discovered. …
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At any given time, how many nodes is my node connected to? As the number of nodes in the net...

There is a discovery process based on Kademlia for finding nodes, then a handshaking process by which they determine which devp2p protocols they support (Eth, Bzz, Shh). … differs in the nth bit of the node ID from the nodeID In Kademlia the distance is defined and bitwise XOR dist(pubk-A,pubk-e) = pubkA ^ pubkB but because the ECDSA key are not uniformly distributed Devp2p
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How does Ethereum client select which peers to synchronise with?

The next stage as I understand it is: Run a server which implements the Devp2p wire protocol Connect to some peers to synchronise the blockchain. …
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