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disconnectnode

disconnectnode ( "address" nodeid )

Immediately disconnects from the specified peer node.

Strictly one out of ‘address’ and ‘nodeid’ can be provided to identify the node.

To disconnect by nodeid, either set ‘address’ to the empty string, or call using the named ‘nodeid’ argument only.

Argument #1 - address​

Type: string, optional, default=fallback to nodeid

The IP address/port of the node

Argument #2 - nodeid​

Type: numeric, optional, default=fallback to address

The node ID (see getpeerinfo for node IDs)

Result​

null (json null)

Example usage (with RPC call)​

BGL-cli disconnectnode "192.168.0.6:8333"
BGL-cli disconnectnode "" 1
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "disconnectnode", "params": ["192.168.0.6:8333"]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8334/

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "disconnectnode", "params": ["", 1]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8334/