setnetworkactive

network dangerous since 0.14.0

disables/enables all P2P network activity.

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setnetworkactive state

Disable/enable all p2p network activity.

Arguments:
1. state    (boolean, required) true to enable networking, false to disable

Result:
true|false    (boolean) The value that was passed in
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