diff --git a/src/rpc/net.cpp b/src/rpc/net.cpp
index ff43edba3e9f9..5e6f42b596517 100644
--- a/src/rpc/net.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/net.cpp
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static RPCHelpMan addconnection()
         {
             {"address", RPCArg::Type::STR, RPCArg::Optional::NO, "The IP address and port to attempt connecting to."},
             {"connection_type", RPCArg::Type::STR, RPCArg::Optional::NO, "Type of connection to open (\"outbound-full-relay\", \"block-relay-only\", \"addr-fetch\" or \"feeler\")."},
-            {"v2transport", RPCArg::Type::BOOL, RPCArg::Default{false}, "Attempt to connect using BIP324 v2 transport protocol"},
+            {"v2transport", RPCArg::Type::BOOL, RPCArg::Optional::NO, "Attempt to connect using BIP324 v2 transport protocol"},
         },
         RPCResult{
             RPCResult::Type::OBJ, "", "",
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static RPCHelpMan addconnection()
     } else {
         throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER, self.ToString());
     }
-    bool use_v2transport = !request.params[2].isNull() && request.params[2].get_bool();
+    bool use_v2transport = self.Arg<bool>(2);
 
     NodeContext& node = EnsureAnyNodeContext(request.context);
     CConnman& connman = EnsureConnman(node);
diff --git a/test/functional/feature_anchors.py b/test/functional/feature_anchors.py
index 3b75a06d9e8f5..5d68f50f582be 100755
--- a/test/functional/feature_anchors.py
+++ b/test/functional/feature_anchors.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def run_test(self):
         self.restart_node(0, extra_args=[f"-onion={onion_conf.addr[0]}:{onion_conf.addr[1]}"])
 
         self.log.info("Add 256-bit-address block-relay-only connections to node")
-        self.nodes[0].addconnection(ONION_ADDR, 'block-relay-only')
+        self.nodes[0].addconnection(ONION_ADDR, 'block-relay-only', v2transport=False)
 
         self.log.debug("Stop node")
         with self.nodes[0].assert_debug_log([f"DumpAnchors: Flush 1 outbound block-relay-only peer addresses to anchors.dat"]):
diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py b/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py
index ddb68dd4e25da..dc04696114ab1 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def connection_lost(self, exc):
         self.on_close()
 
     # v2 handshake method
-    def v2_handshake(self):
+    def _on_data_v2_handshake(self):
         """v2 handshake performed before P2P messages are exchanged (see BIP324). P2PConnection is the initiator
         (in inbound connections to TestNode) and the responder (in outbound connections from TestNode).
         Performed by:
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ def data_received(self, t):
         if len(t) > 0:
             self.recvbuf += t
             if self.supports_v2_p2p and not self.v2_state.tried_v2_handshake:
-                self.v2_handshake()
+                self._on_data_v2_handshake()
             else:
                 self._on_data()
 
@@ -595,9 +595,7 @@ def wait_for_disconnect(self, timeout=60):
 
     def wait_for_reconnect(self, timeout=60):
         def test_function():
-            if not (self.is_connected and self.last_message.get('version') and self.v2_state is None):
-                return False
-            return True
+            return self.is_connected and self.last_message.get('version') and not self.supports_v2_p2p
         self.wait_until(test_function, timeout=timeout, check_connected=False)
 
     # Message receiving helper methods
diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/v2_p2p.py b/test/functional/test_framework/v2_p2p.py
index 0b3979fba2b6b..8f79623bd8ac2 100644
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/v2_p2p.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/v2_p2p.py
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ def authenticate_handshake(self, response):
             # decoy packets have contents = None. v2 handshake is complete only when version packet
             # (can be empty with contents = b"") with contents != None is received.
             if contents is not None:
+                assert contents == b""  # currently TestNode sends an empty version packet
                 self.tried_v2_handshake = True
                 return processed_length, True
             response = response[length:]