Manspreading helps you greedily occupy a peer seat in a remote geth node.

Sadly, due to the fact that many nodes on Ethereum network do not change the default --maxpeers settings, most nodes are full and won't accept new peers. Although there are static-nodes.json and trusted-nodes.json where a node owner can hardcode peers that will always connect regardless of the restriction by --maxpeers, these options are buried deep in the document and codebase, so that few knows they exist. Preserving a node peer seat at a peer becomes essential in the development/research on geth.

Manspreading is a proxy server that can be run as daemon and occupies a "seat" at a remote geth peer, so the real geth instance behind the proxy can stop and restart anytime without worrying the seat at the remote peer been taken during the restart period.

• Golang (v1.8+)
• You need to install geth as the dependency by running go get github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

1. go build .
2. ./manspreading --upstream="<remote node enode url>" --listenaddr="127.0.0.1:36666"
   A log line will show what's the enode url of the manspreading proxy in the format of enode://<nodekey>@<listenaddr>
   or if you have a nodekey file that you'd like to use:
   ./manspreading --upstream="<remote node enode url>" --listenaddr="127.0.0.1:36666" --nodekey="<path_to_your_nodekey>"
   Upstream node will be configured as both a static node and a trusted node, therefore even if the upstream disconnect itself, manspreading will attempt to reconnect indefinitely.
3. Start your real geth instance and add the manspreading enode url as a peer by running admin.addPeer("<manspreading enode url>")

• Making manspreading a 1-to-many or even a many-to-many proxy