I am using Mist Browser on a laptop at IP = .12 on the local network. Elsewhere on IP = 25, I have an RPi running a node from http://parity.io/. The command is
/usr/bin/parity --warp --cache 256 --public-node
I noticed that the Parity client has a
/usr/bin/parity --geth
option which I am not using, but as I understand it, this node supposedly implements the Ethereum protocol, so I should be able to tell my local Mist that the RPi has the blockchain.
In case it's any help, the ONLY open port is 22 (no RPC), and no JSON-RPC or config.toml anywhere. Neither is there any chaindata directory.
$ find . -name chaindata -print
What I really want is to mount the ~/.ethereum/geth/chaindata from the RPi so that block data (such as) .ethereum/geth/chaindata/000186.ldb are available on the laptop as Mist starts, so that Mist won't download the whole blockchain again.
I'll probably need to use the Go client because the --geth mode seems to produce the same directory structure on the RPi. The Parity.io node is written in Rust, and that might explain why I can't find the files I was looking for.
Has anyone tried this, or can anyone tell me if they've managed to start Mist so that it "borrows" the blockchain mounted from the local LAN?
