[Arm-allstar-irlp] To ALL Hamvoip IRLP users

[Elden W7LDN]

Gah! I was just thinking a little more about this. And I remember you
saying there were some specific reasons why keys were being revoked.
Primarily because of illegitimate key cloning or whatever. So the feature
was indeed legit until the IRLP folks concluded that things were escalating
beyond their control in terms of fraudulent activity by a few bad apples?

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:56 PM Elden W7LDN <w7ldn at w7ldn.com> wrote:

> I have to say Doug... when I rebuilt my Allstar node a couple of months
> ago I was very surprised to see it had IRLP functionality. I assumed you
> and the IRLP folks had worked out an agreement.
>
> But it seems now that this wasn’t the case. I would have never attempted
> to use that feature of hamvoip had I known that.
>
> I think I’m a little curious what the IRLP folks would do if I just
> plugged my official IRLP hardware back in and then complained to them that
> it wasn’t working (assuming my key has been revoked).
>
> Do you think that they feel using the IRLP feature of hamvoip violates the
> IRLP license agreement? And the result is a permanent revocation? I guess
> we wouldn’t know if they were willing to reinstate one’s key until someone
> tries. I don’t feel very good about my $400 piece of hardware becoming a
> paperweight because I used what I thought was a legit feature.
>
> I’m a little surprised that hamvoip would offer an unauthorized method for
> accessing a network where the folks who run that network are known to be
> against such things.
>
> Was the IRLP feature of hamvoip approved by the IRLP folks at one time and
> then later disapproved?
>
> If I am wrong I would very much like to be corrected. I will be the first
> to admit I know very little of the specifics of the situation. What I have
> said above reflects only what I think I know. I would very much like it not
> to be true.
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:53 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar-irlp" <
> arm-allstar-irlp at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> We do not plan on taking out the current IRLP modules from the Hamvoip
>> code
>> but if you are running IRLP it is likely your keys were pulled by the IRLP
>> admin.  If this is the case we recommend that you turn off your IRLP by
>> doing the following two things -
>>
>> In the /usr/local/etc/allstar.env  file comment the
>>
>> exportIRLP="enabled"
>>
>> to
>>
>> #exportIRLP="enabled"
>>
>> Also you can turn off the IRLP module -
>>
>> In the /etc/asterisk/modules.conf file change (uncomment)  -
>>
>> ;noload=chan_irlp.so
>>
>> to
>>
>> noload=chan_irlp.so
>>
>> Then reboot for the changes to take effect.
>>
>> This will disable your IRLP node. If for some reason you want to re-enable
>> it in the future it is just a matter of reversing these two items.
>>
>>
>> *73 Doug*
>>
>> *WA3DSP*
>>
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
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