Working with a Proxy Port

Proxy Port Structure

Before creating a port, it's useful to understand its structure:

Structure Explanation:

• Port: The entry point for miners. HashCore Proxy can accept connections on multiple ports simultaneously. Each port is configured independently and can serve a large number of miners.
• Proxy Groups: An intermediate load balancing layer. The load between groups is distributed by Weight.
• Pools: Specific mining pools within a group. In each proxy group, the first Pool is Primary, and the others are Backup / Failover.

Creating a Proxy Port

1. Click the + New proxy port button.

The “Proxy port configs” modal window will open.

2. Fill in the main parameters:

• Name: The port's name (up to 28 characters) — for identification in the web configurator and Grafana.
• Port: The port number for miners to connect (working range 3000 – 4000).
• Submission rate: The frequency of share submission to the Pool. Default value: 5 (1 share every 5 seconds). This parameter is set in seconds between shares — the higher the value, the less frequently shares are sent to the Pool, and the higher their difficulty. Examples:
  • 5 — 1 share every 5 seconds
• 10 — 1 share every 10 seconds
• 2 — 1 share every 2 seconds

Note: In the web configurator, the value is set in seconds. In the YAML file, the same parameter is recorded as a frequency — the number of shares per second: submission_rate: 0.2 means 1 / 5 = 0.2. More details in section 6.5.

• Aggregation: The number of miners per connection to the Pool. Default value: 200, maximum: 255. The higher the value, the fewer connections the proxy opens to the Pool, and the more traffic is compressed. Examples:
• aggregation: 10 with 68 miners → 7 connections to the Pool
• aggregation: 255 with 68 miners → 1 connection to the Pool

The total traffic volume between HashCore Proxy and the Pool depends on aggregation and submission_rate — the higher the aggregation and the lower the share submission frequency, the less data is transmitted.

• Mining algorithm: Mining algorithm:
  • sha256d is used for Bitcoin and other coins based on the SHA-256D algorithm.
• scrypt is used for Litecoin and other coins based on the Scrypt algorithm.

3. Add at least one Pool to each Proxy Group.

⚠️ If there is no Pool in the group, clicking the Save button will display a warning: “Pool group must have at least one pool”

4. Click the Save button.

After saving, the port will appear in the list of proxy ports with an Inactive status. To activate it, go to the port management menu (three dots ⋮) and select Enable.

Managing a Proxy Port

1. In the list of ports, click on the three dots (⋯) to the right of the desired port.
2. In the context menu, select the desired action:

• Enable/Disable: Toggle to enable/disable the port.
• Edit: Opens the proxy port settings editing window.
• Delete: Deletes the proxy port.
  Settings are applied automatically without system restart.