<div>Best is to just open a channel to a different node.<br></div><div>By maintaining multiple channels, you can be forwarding node.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Deleting lightning state is a bad idea.<br></div><div>You should consider multiple channels, not focus on just one channel to the network.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>ZmnSCPxj<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a target="_blank" href="https://protonmail.com">ProtonMail</a> Secure Email.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Thursday, December 13, 2018 8:20 PM, Sarat G <sarath.ginjupalli89@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi
ZmnSCPxj,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I encountered the issue mentioned here(<a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1272">https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1272</a>). I understand the problem is relate to the channel capacity in my case.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For that I'm trying to refund the channel with the higher amount and unfortunately it's not allowing me to refund the existing channel.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would like to know, what could be the work around in these kind scenarios, how can I increase the channel capacity in such cases?<br></div><div><br></div><div>At this moment, I'm cleaning the peers and channels from the lightning sqlite3 database and restarting the lightningd, and then funding the channel with higher amounts inorder to make it work.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for asking so many questions, your thoughts on this helpful to me. <br></div><div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Sarat G<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>