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@ -89,15 +89,16 @@ useful on the testnet too. Please see above for their explanations if you've ski
Specifying the `--testnet` flag, however, will reconfigure your `geth` instance a bit:
* Instead of connecting the main Ethereum network, the client will connect to the Goerli
test network, which uses different P2P bootnodes, different network IDs and genesis
states.
* Instead of using the default data directory (`~/.ethereum` on Linux for example), `geth`
will nest itself one level deeper into a `testnet` subfolder (`~/.ethereum/testnet` on
will nest itself one level deeper into a `goerli` subfolder (`~/.ethereum/goerli` on
Linux). Note, on OSX and Linux this also means that attaching to a running testnet node
requires the use of a custom endpoint since `geth attach` will try to attach to a
production node endpoint by default. E.g.
`geth attach <datadir>/testnet/geth.ipc`. Windows users are not affected by
production node endpoint by default, e.g.,
`geth attach <datadir>/goerli/geth.ipc`. Windows users are not affected by
this.
* Instead of connecting the main Ethereum network, the client will connect to the test
network, which uses different P2P bootnodes, different network IDs and genesis states.
*Note: Although there are some internal protective measures to prevent transactions from
crossing over between the main network and test network, you should make sure to always