[arm-allstar] Permanent link failing

[Doug Crompton]

Chris,

  I have not seen this problem here and I run several permanent
connections. Keep in mind that whoever you are connecting to can manually
disconnect a permanent link to them. So if the node you are connecting to
is not yours or it is yours and you are not sure if someone could be
disconnecting from the other end check to see if that might be the case.

To better understand why this might be happening we would need more info.
Are the links generally reliable or are they constantly
disconnecting/reconnecting? What code version is a BOTH end? Is there any
situation that you can identify when this happens? You can go into the
Asterisk client (ADMIN menu item 11) and view the log to see if reconnects
are taking place.

Asterisk requires that both ends have knowledge of the other ends IP
address. This is done through the /tmp/rpt_extnodes file. If one end (your
end) had the connection list and the other end did not the connection would
fail and your end would continue to try and reconnect forever until either
you restarted/rebooted or you execute a permanent disconnect. During this
period if you had previously been connected the connection list would
probably still show connected.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*





On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:23 AM, "C B via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

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> Randomly my Permanent links are acting as if they are notconnected. Almon2
> still shows them as connected however the signals to not passthru.
>
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> Background on my configuration.
>
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> There are more than 30 nodes in the system that is connectedon the same
> private sub net, on a vlan on the wide area intranet; this intranetconsists
> mostly of IP microwave.  All nodessit behind a router. There are also nodes
> connected via the public internet.
>
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> Each node has a unique port number, there is a line in eachnode in the
> prt.conf so that the private ip address and port are known for eachof the
> nosed on the same subnet of the wide area intranet. Thus this is notrelying
> on a hairpin thru the router for connectivity.
>
>
> The nodes Permanent link is set up by having a startup_macro=*73xxxxxxxxin
> the rpt.conf
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> Every so often a node no longer is linked but it still showslinked in
> allmon2.
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>
> Restarting asterisk resolved this issue.
>
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> Any idea on what can be done here to make this more reliable?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for any help.
>
>
> Chris
>
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