addnode
Or try a connection to a node once.
Nodes added using addnode (or -connect) are protected from DoS disconnection and are not required to be full nodes/support SegWit as other outbound peers are (though such peers will not be synced from).
Addnode connections are limited to 8 at a time and are counted separately from the -maxconnections limit.
Argument #1-node
Type: string, Required
Description: The address of the peer to connect to
Argument #2-command
Type: string, Required
Description: 'add' to add a node to the list, 'remove' to remove a node from the list, 'onetry' to try a connection to the node once
Argument #3-v2transport
Type: boolean, Optional
Default=set by -v2transport
Description: Attempt to connect using BIP324 v2 transport protocol (ignored for 'remove' command)
Result
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