[Arm-allstar-irlp] Internet & astdb.txt question

[David McGough]

Jesse,

Do you have any permanent out-bound AllStar connections from your node?

Are you controlling a repeater, or just simplex (what is the duplex= 
setting in rpt.conf)??

73, David KB4FXC

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jesse Royall wrote:

> I've noticed with the latest update. I've got a broken Ethernet 
cable clip and when it came unplugged my allstar node wouldn't respond 
until I plugged it back in. I thought I had a bad sd card and was fixing 
to reimagine it when i plugged it back into the Ethernet cord and then 
after a few mins, my node came back and started acting like a controller again.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Sep 9, 2019, at 2:42 AM, David McGough via ARM-allstar-irlp <arm-allstar-irlp at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Lawrence,
> > 
> > Interesting. I'll investigate this connectivity scenario.  All my (RPi3B) 
> > boards are connected to the network via WiFi and have static IP addresses, 
> > with a OpenVPN tunnel to a central hub.  I've had cases where the AP that 
> > the RPi boards link to go down and cases where upstream connectivity went 
> > down---no odd behavior in either case.
> > 
> > 73, David KB4FXC
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, Lawrence Roney wrote:
> >> 
> >> For what it's worth.
> >> 
> >> I experienced the same "repeater goes to sleep" issue a few weeks back when one of the mountaintops lost connectivity.  The physical ethernet link on the Pi would have remained up since it is plugged into a switch, but there was no connection to the Internet further downstream.
> >> 
> >> My Pi has a static IP address if that lends any insight.  Also, the mountaintop Pi would have been a permalink *73xxxxx connection to a central Pi down in the valley acting as a hub.   The repeater "woke back up" as soon as Internet was restored.
> >> 
> >> I have not had a chance to test with another Pi on the bench.  Most of my bench units are DHCP.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Lawrence
> >> N6YFN
> >> Henderson Amateur Radio Club - w7hen.com
> >> 
> > 
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