An ETH proxy is a service running the Ethereum wire protocol, allowing one or more clients to run behind it while keeping connections open.

Motivation

The current peer-to-peer networking does not allow hot restarts of Ethereum clients.

We want to implement just enough logic we can keep connections open with existing peers, while we have the ability to create master/slave or master/master replication schemes.

Scope of work

Implement ETH proxy to capture and replay most important messages - status, in particular.

Implement distribution of executable running ETH proxy