Hi Swiftshoot,
close starcoin-qt and backup and delete peers.dat in your data directory.. update the starcoin.conf with something similar to the below config
daemon=1
bind=192.168.0.x
port=18216
listen=1
maxconnections=8
logtimestamps=1
gen=0
splash=0
dns=1
discover=1
irc=0
dnsseed=0
#onlynet=IPv4
server=1
rpcuser=x
rpcpassword=x
rpcport=18217
rpcallowip=192.168.0.x
rpcallowip=192.168.0.x
rpcallowip=192.168.0.x
rpcallowip=192.168.0.x
rpcconnect=192.168.0.x
#seednode=add-any-other-known-bad-ips-then-uncomment
connect=37.229.117.57
connect=63.246.129.56:36302
connect=82.9.77.178
connect=198.84.250.234
connect=212.119.171.18
connect=216.155.151.242
start starcoin-qt
hope it helps..
also before you mentioned that the client had no upnp support, well the starcoind does... to get it setup automatically close starcoin-qt, then in a command prompt in windows type :
starcoind -upnp
now wait it will take a while to load and not say anything.. leave that prompt open and open another.. in this prompt keep trying:
starcoind getinfo
until you get a response that isn't server not found, once you get a response
you can close both the command prompts, UPNP for that client has been set in the router!
Here are Starcoin's command line options.. no option for -upnp. Not sure if it is in the source but I will check.
**Update: Checked source... it was defaulted to USE_UPNP=0 when compiled and therefore reason why it was not visible. For next version could you please ensure it is compiled with USE_UPNP=1 so that it will automatically work for Windows.
Options:
-? This help message
-conf=<file> Specify configuration file (default: StarCoin.conf)
-pid=<file> Specify pid file (default: StarCoind.pid)
-gen Generate coins
-gen=0 Don't generate coins
-datadir=<dir> Specify data directory
-dbcache=<n> Set database cache size in megabytes (default: 25)
-dblogsize=<n> Set database disk log size in megabytes (default: 100)
-timeout=<n> Specify connection timeout in milliseconds (default: 5000)
-proxy=<ip:port> Connect through socks proxy
-socks=<n> Select the version of socks proxy to use (4-5, default: 5)
-tor=<ip:port> Use proxy to reach tor hidden services (default: same as -proxy)
-dns Allow DNS lookups for -addnode, -seednode and -connect
-port=<port> Listen for connections on <port> (default: 18216 or testnet: 28216)
-maxconnections=<n> Maintain at most <n> connections to peers (default: 125)
-addnode=<ip> Add a node to connect to and attempt to keep the connection open
-connect=<ip> Connect only to the specified node(s)
-seednode=<ip> Connect to a node to retrieve peer addresses, and disconnect
-externalip=<ip> Specify your own public address
-onlynet=<net> Only connect to nodes in network <net> (IPv4, IPv6 or Tor)
-discover Discover own IP address (default: 1 when listening and no -externalip)
-irc Find peers using internet relay chat (default: 1)
-listen Accept connections from outside (default: 1 if no -proxy or -connect)
-bind=<addr> Bind to given address. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6
-dnsseed Find peers using DNS lookup (default: 0)
-nosynccheckpoints Disable sync checkpoints (default: 0)
-banscore=<n> Threshold for disconnecting misbehaving peers (default: 100)
-bantime=<n> Number of seconds to keep misbehaving peers from reconnecting (default: 86400)
-maxreceivebuffer=<n> Maximum per-connection receive buffer, <n>*1000 bytes (default: 5000)
-maxsendbuffer=<n> Maximum per-connection send buffer, <n>*1000 bytes (default: 1000)
-detachdb Detach block and address databases. Increases shutdown time (default: 0)
-paytxfee=<amt> Fee per KB to add to transactions you send
-server Accept command line and JSON-RPC commands
-testnet Use the test network
-debug Output extra debugging information. Implies all other -debug* options
-debugnet Output extra network debugging information
-logtimestamps Prepend debug output with timestamp
-shrinkdebugfile Shrink debug.log file on client startup (default: 1 when no -debug)
-printtoconsole Send trace/debug info to console instead of debug.log file
-printtodebugger Send trace/debug info to debugger
-rpcuser=<user> Username for JSON-RPC connections
-rpcpassword=<pw> Password for JSON-RPC connections
-rpcport=<port> Listen for JSON-RPC connections on <port> (default: 18217 or testnet: 28217)
-rpcallowip=<ip> Allow JSON-RPC connections from specified IP address
-rpcconnect=<ip> Send commands to node running on <ip> (default: 127.0.0.1)
-blocknotify=<cmd> Execute command when the best block changes (%s in cmd is replaced by block hash)
-upgradewallet Upgrade wallet to latest format
-keypool=<n> Set key pool size to <n> (default: 100)
-rescan Rescan the block chain for missing wallet transactions
-salvagewallet Attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet.dat
-checkblocks=<n> How many blocks to check at startup (default: 2500, 0 = all)
-checklevel=<n> How thorough the block verification is (0-6, default: 1)
-loadblock=<file> Imports blocks from external blk000?.dat file
Block creation options:
-blockminsize=<n> Set minimum block size in bytes (default: 0)
-blockmaxsize=<n> Set maximum block size in bytes (default: 250000)
-blockprioritysize=<n> Set maximum size of high-priority/low-fee transactions in bytes (default: 27000)
SSL options: (see the Bitcoin Wiki for SSL setup instructions)
-rpcssl Use OpenSSL (https) for JSON-RPC connections
-rpcsslcertificatechainfile=<file.cert> Server certificate file (default: server.cert)
-rpcsslprivatekeyfile=<file.pem> Server private key (default: server.pem)
-rpcsslciphers=<ciphers> Acceptable ciphers (default: TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!AH:!3DES:@STRENGTH)
UI options:
-lang=<lang> Set language, for example "de_DE" (default: system locale)
-min Start minimized
-splash Show splash screen on startup (default: 1)