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# ServiceEndpoint

> ServiceEndpoint is a Hedera protobuf message containing the IP address and port of a consensus node, used by clients to reach the HAPI gRPC service.

Contains the IP address and the port representing a service endpoint of a Node in a network. Used to reach the Hedera API and submit transactions to the network.

| Field         | Type  | Description                                                                                                   | Consensus Node Version |
| ------------- | ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------- |
| `ipAddressV4` | bytes | The 32-bit IPv4 address of the node encoded in left to right order (e.g. 127.0.0.1 has 127 as its first byte) | 0.13.0                 |
| `port`        | int32 | The port of the node                                                                                          | 0.13.0                 |