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# Peer Exchange
## Channels
Pex has one channel. The channel identifier is listed below.
| Name | Number |
|------------|--------|
| PexChannel | 0 |
## Message Types
The current PEX service has two versions. The first uses IP/port pair but since the p2p stack is moving towards a transport agnostic approach,
node endpoints require a `Protocol` and `Path` hence the V2 version uses a [url](https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#URL) instead.
### PexRequest
PexRequest is an empty message requesting a list of peers.
> EmptyRequest
### PexResponse
PexResponse is an list of net addresses provided to a peer to dial.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|-------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|--------------|
| addresses | repeated [PexAddress](#pexaddress) | List of peer addresses available to dial | 1 |
### PexAddress
PexAddress provides needed information for a node to dial a peer.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|------|--------|------------------|--------------|
| id | string | NodeID of a peer | 1 |
| ip | string | The IP of a node | 2 |
| port | port | Port of a peer | 3 |
### PexRequestV2
PexRequest is an empty message requesting a list of peers.
> EmptyRequest
### PexResponseV2
PexResponse is an list of net addresses provided to a peer to dial.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|-------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|--------------|
| addresses | repeated [PexAddressV2](#pexresponsev2) | List of peer addresses available to dial | 1 |
### PexAddressV2
PexAddress provides needed information for a node to dial a peer.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|------|--------|------------------|--------------|
| url | string | See [golang url](https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#URL) | 1 |
### Message
Message is a [`oneof` protobuf type](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#oneof). The one of consists of two messages.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|--------------|---------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| pex_request | [PexRequest](#pexrequest) | Empty request asking for a list of addresses to dial | 1 |
| pex_response | [PexResponse](#pexresponse)| List of addresses to dial | 2 |
| pex_request_v2| [PexRequestV2](#pexrequestv2)| Empty request asking for a list of addresses to dial| 3 |
| pex_response_v2| [PexRespinseV2](#pexresponsev2)| List of addresses to dial | 4 |