# Connect Node

## Connect Node <a href="#node-connection" id="node-connection"></a>

To connect via the `gmet` RPC web server installed locally, follow the steps below:

```
gmet attach http://localhost:8588
```

To connect using the `gmet` IPC file installed locally, follow these steps:

```
gmet attach $GMET_HOME/gmet.ipc
```

After downloading the binary and extracting it in $GMET\_HOME, you can find a shell script file named `gmet.sh` under the bin directory. The method to connect to the node via IPC file using `gmet.sh` is as follows:

```
$GMET_HOME/bin/gmet.sh console
```

## Node Settings

When using `gmet.sh`, it is possible to pre-set node launch options by creating a file called`.rc` {data\_folder}.

```
PORT=8588
DISCOVER=1        # 1 for enable discovery mode, 0 for disable discovery mode
TESTNET=1         # 1 for Testnet or remove this line for Mainnet
SYNC_MODE=full
GMET_OPTS="--rpc.allow-unprotected-txs"
```

Setting up as described above and running `gmet`, `gmet` will result in being executed with the following command line options:

```
gmet --http.port 8588 --meta-testnet --syncmode full --rpc.allow-unprotected-txs 
```