lighthouse/scripts/local_testnet/README.md
realbigsean c5786a8821 Doppelganger detection (#2230)
## Issue Addressed

Resolves #2069 

## Proposed Changes

- Adds a `--doppelganger-detection` flag
- Adds a `lighthouse/seen_validators` endpoint, which will make it so the lighthouse VC is not interopable with other client beacon nodes if the `--doppelganger-detection` flag is used, but hopefully this will become standardized. Relevant Eth2 API repo issue: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-APIs/issues/64
- If the `--doppelganger-detection` flag is used, the VC will wait until the beacon node is synced, and then wait an additional 2 epochs. The reason for this is to make sure the beacon node is able to subscribe to the subnets our validators should be attesting on. I think an alternative would be to have the beacon node subscribe to all subnets for 2+ epochs on startup by default.

## Additional Info

I'd like to add tests and would appreciate feedback. 

TODO:  handle validators started via the API, potentially make this default behavior

Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2021-07-31 03:50:52 +00:00

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# Simple Local Testnet
These scripts allow for running a small local testnet with multiple beacon nodes and validator clients.
This setup can be useful for testing and development.
## Requirements
The scripts require `lcli` and `lighthouse` to be installed on `PATH`. From the
root of this repository, run:
```bash
make
make install-lcli
```
## Starting the testnet
Start a local eth1 ganache server
```bash
./ganache_test_node.sh
```
Assuming you are happy with the configuration in `var.env`, deploy the deposit contract, make deposits,
create the testnet directory, genesis state and validator keys with:
```bash
./setup.sh
```
Generate bootnode enr and start a discv5 bootnode so that multiple beacon nodes can find each other
```bash
./bootnode.sh
```
Start a beacon node:
```bash
./beacon_node.sh <DATADIR> <NETWORK-PORT> <HTTP-PORT> <OPTIONAL-DEBUG-LEVEL>
```
e.g.
```bash
./beacon_node.sh $HOME/.lighthouse/local-testnet/node_1 9000 8000
```
In a new terminal, start the validator client which will attach to the first
beacon node:
```bash
./validator_client.sh <DATADIR> <BEACON-NODE-HTTP> <OPTIONAL-DEBUG-LEVEL>
```
e.g. to attach to the above created beacon node
```bash
./validator_client.sh $HOME/.lighthouse/local-testnet/node_1 http://localhost:8000
```
You can create additional beacon node and validator client instances with appropriate parameters.
## Additional Info
### Adjusting number and distribution of validators
The `VALIDATOR_COUNT` parameter is used to specify the number of insecure validator keystores to generate and make deposits for.
The `NODE_COUNT` parameter is used to adjust the division of these generated keys among separate validator client instances.
For e.g. for `VALIDATOR_COUNT=80` and `NODE_COUNT=4`, the validator keys are distributed over 4 datadirs with 20 keystores per datadir. The datadirs are located in `$DATADIR/node_{i}` which can be passed to separate validator client
instances using the `--datadir` parameter.
### Starting fresh
Delete the current testnet and all related files using:
```bash
./clean.sh
```
### Updating the genesis time of the beacon state
If it's been a while since you ran `./setup` then the genesis time of the
genesis state will be far in the future, causing lots of skip slots.
Update the genesis time to now using:
```bash
./reset_genesis_time.sh
```
> Note: you probably want to drop the beacon node database and the validator
> client slashing database if you do this. When using small validator counts
> it's probably easy to just use `./clean.sh && ./setup.sh`.