[arm-allstar] data usage on node w/ LTE hotspot
David McGough
kb4fxc at inttek.net
Tue Dec 5 03:14:26 EST 2017
Hi Richard,
I can't imagine what is going on, but, it isn't typical behavior for the
hamvoip release where you have no VoIP traffic. I just looked at 6
different WiFi attached nodes I've got and only see a fraction of the
amount of data transfer you're experiencing....And, these nodes do
transfer a fair amount of VoIP audio via WiFi, which constitutes the bulk
of the bandwidth used.
Here is a typical system. Note that I run all my VoIP traffic over the
OpenVPN tunnel. It has a few hours of VoIP traffic most days.
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[root at repeater-444500 asterisk]# uptime
03:06:50 up 17 days, 10:23, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.10, 0.06
[root at repeater-444850 asterisk]# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether b8:27:eb:43:23:73 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 151 bytes 14203 (13.8 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 151 bytes 14203 (13.8 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
tun1: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 12.17.x.y netmask 255.255.255.255 destination 172.16.x.y
unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 txqueuelen 100 (UNSPEC)
RX packets 897365 bytes 53436004 (50.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1628242 bytes 168139634 (160.3 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.x.85 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.x.255
ether b8:27:eb:13:73:23 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1947025 bytes 220773334 (210.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1438 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1814607 bytes 403371406 (384.6 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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....I'm not sure what's going on with your setup.
73, David KB4FXC
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, "Richard Bateman via arm-allstar" wrote:
> Hmm. Well, I disabled the node updates, turned off stats, shut off
rc.updatenodefile, and even tried disabling the ast cron job and it still
kept downloading 20MB approximately every 4 hours.
I didn't actually run the filelookup_onoff.sh script, but skimming through
it it appears to just enable or disable rc.updatenodelist, which I killed
manually to test.
Any other ideas? My hotspot is now off and I've lost connection until I
fork out some cash to turn it back on, but I'd rather not do that until I
have a plan for tracking this down since at 20MB every 4 hours 1GB of data
will not last long.
Richard
On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Richard Bateman <richard at batemansr.us>
wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Thanks for the info; I'm not (currently) linking the repeater to anything,
> but it's good to know that g.729 is available -- I didn't realize that.
> I've disabled all of those things as well as the statspost stuff, so we'll
> just have to see if that fixes the issue :-/
>
> Thanks for all the info, I'll let you know what I find.
>
> Richard
>
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 11:26 AM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> What Steve mentions is true but he is using the beta DNA lookup which has
>> not been deployed to all yet. So what he is saying and the file download
>> does NOT apply until this is released to all.
>>
>> On that note once DNS lookuip is released to all turning off rpt_extnodes
>> file download, status posting and selecting a lower bandwidth
>> codec will greatly reduce data usage when necessary.
>>
>> The rpt_extnodes file downloads alone cause an astounding combined
>> download
>> usage of ​32,400,000,000 bytes or 32.4 terabytes transferred
>> daily based on each node updating 144 times a day, file size 150K, number
>> of active nodes 1500.
>>
>>
>> *73 Doug*
>>
>> *WA3DSP*
>>
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 12:22 PM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>> > If it is a private node number then you can comment out the 2 statpost
>> > lines near the bottom of the node stanza, and you can turn off the
>> download
>> > of the rpt_extnodes file every ten minutes. You can also turn these off
>> if
>> > you are using a public node along with node_lookup_method=dns. You can
>> > download a script to do this as follows:
>> >
>> > cd /root
>> > wget https://hamvoip.org/downloads/filelookup_onoff.sh
>> > chmod 750 filelookup_onoff.sh
>> > ./filelookup_onoff.sh
>> >
>> > N5ZUA
>> >
>> > On 12/3/2017 9:52 AM, "Richard Bateman via arm-allstar" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have a node which lives on a mountaintop a 10K feet that I've put an
>> LTE
>> >> modem on so I can remote control it; I'm trying to get by with the
>> >> freedompop free 200MB mode, but it seems to be downloading
>> approximately
>> >> 20MB of data multiple times per day; nothing I have installed should be
>> >> doing that.
>> >>
>> >> Is there anything installed in the default hamvoip install that might
>> be
>> >> causing that?
>> >>
>> >> Richard
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