qa: Avoid start/stop of the network thread mid-test

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/test/functional/p2p_timeouts.py b/test/functional/p2p_timeouts.py
index e958536cf9..7a4ef1c05c 100755
--- a/test/functional/p2p_timeouts.py
+++ b/test/functional/p2p_timeouts.py
@@ -38,13 +38,11 @@ class TimeoutsTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         self.num_nodes = 1
 
     def run_test(self):
-        # Setup the p2p connections and start up the network thread.
+        # Setup the p2p connections
         no_verack_node = self.nodes[0].add_p2p_connection(TestP2PConn())
         no_version_node = self.nodes[0].add_p2p_connection(TestP2PConn(), send_version=False)
         no_send_node = self.nodes[0].add_p2p_connection(TestP2PConn(), send_version=False)
 
-        network_thread_start()
-
         sleep(1)
 
         assert no_verack_node.is_connected