How to sync private nodes in geth and testRPC locally

Question

I have setup 2 nodes on my system, 1 on testRPC and the other on geth. I want to sync both these nodes so that I can write a smart contract for both these accounts. How can I do this?

Answer 1

HI. As much as I know, running a node on testrpc cannot be connected to by other nodes unless they have the same genesis file. TestRPC is used to run standalone nodes and not to connect other nodes.

What you can do is, create two or more private nodes and have them sync. You can use admin.addPeers() method in the geth console to connect the nodes.