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Wire protocol Extended (Child processes)
Jeffrey Wilcke edited this page Jul 8, 2014
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Ethereum Child processes allow any node to connect to an existing node and share it's parent process to handle all network communication and data persisting. This will allow for multiple Ethereum light nodes on the same host with full access to the block chain through the parent process.
Intercom messages range from 0x30 - X all messages are specified as
[0x30, [block hash]]- Retrieve the block by hash or empty if block couldn't be found
[0x31, [block]]- Returns the given block as a reply on
get block.