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Docs update request: /docs/advanced/switch-clients can this be re-opened? thanks #891

Closed defeedme closed 8 months ago

defeedme commented 9 months ago

i'm running windows with nethermind and i'm losing peers every few hours, very frustrating and i know my ports are open I tested them with https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=tcp%3a24.189.113.188%3a13000&run=toolpage

I've been running fine since genesis for 3 years and all of a sudden this is happening 4.1.1 I see in your instructions you do mention there's a "bug" in your own software causing windows users to lose peers and you even recommend downgrading! wow

so I need better instructions and which other validator client is best for windows.. thanks

Source: https://docs.prylabs.network/docs/advanced/switch-clients

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james-prysm commented 9 months ago

I believe lighthouse may support windows as well as teku but mostly not maintained, hopefully some of your issues will be resolved our next release. I can't speak to or recommend which client to switch to, perhaps you can try a few yourself. I only know that lodestar doesn't seem to support windows.

defeedme commented 9 months ago

thanks I'm waiting with baited breadth for the next revision, in the meantime I'm constantly stopping and restarting prysm to find peers and it works for a few hours then fails miserably.. i'm leaning towards nimbus at this point.. prysm worked great for 3 years, what happened?

james-prysm commented 9 months ago

Talking with team mates it seems windows users have experienced lost packets before ( somewhat related experience https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/issues/8144) There hasn't been anything specific done in prysm to lose support and we haven't heard any other reports from windows users besides the yours that was mentioned.

defeedme commented 9 months ago

bizarre then, my system worked fine for 3 years and now it just looses peers after about 2 hours... I had to setup a schedule task to kill beacon and restart it every 2 hours.. version 4.2 hasn't changed anything for windows

james-prysm commented 8 months ago

added information on time drift

justaguy24 commented 5 months ago

Is there any update on this? I'm having the same issue and it's simply infuriating

prestonvanloon commented 4 months ago

@justaguy24 Track the issue here: https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/issues/13936