From 928a6f72222024e671254f6d9f522be384ac52f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Facundo=20Dom=C3=ADnguez?= <facundo.dominguez@tweag.io>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:35:22 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Document how to connect to other nodes than toxproxy

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 scripts/genesis-benchmarks/README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/genesis-benchmarks/README.md b/scripts/genesis-benchmarks/README.md
index e62b8634b3..a1a4ad6208 100644
--- a/scripts/genesis-benchmarks/README.md
+++ b/scripts/genesis-benchmarks/README.md
@@ -85,6 +85,31 @@ it. But one can start syncing from slot 0 with,
 $ SYNC_FROM_0=1 NUM_SLOTS=155000 ./run-syncing-node.sh 1
 ```
 
+### How to connect to other nodes than toxiproxy
+
+The following uses a custom topology file, instead of generating one that
+connects to toxiproxy.
+
+```
+$ TOPOLOGY=toplogy.json ./run-syncing-node.sh 1
+```
+
+For instance,
+```
+$ cat topology.json
+{"publicRoots": []
+, "localRoots":
+  [{ "accessPoints":
+     [ {"address": "34.216.201.242", "port": 3001}
+     , {"address": "3.77.115.8", "port": 3001}
+     ]
+   , "advertise": false
+   , "hotValency": 2
+   , "trustable": true
+   }]
+}
+```
+
 ### How to collect the eventlog of the syncing node
 
 The following command collects the eventlog.