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$ sudo systemctl start lightningd.service $ sudo systemctl start lightningd.service
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### Enabling Remote Connections
If you have some sort of firewall, you'll need to open up port 9735, to allow other Lightning nodes to talk to you.
If you use `ufw` from Bitcoin Standup, this is done as follows:
```
$ sudo ufw allow 9735
```
## Verifying your Node ## Verifying your Node
You can check if your Lightning node is ready to go by comparing the output of `bitcoin-cli getblockcount` with the `blockheight` result from `lightning-cli getinfo`. You can check if your Lightning node is ready to go by comparing the output of `bitcoin-cli getblockcount` with the `blockheight` result from `lightning-cli getinfo`.