[arm-allstar] Permanent link failing

Justin Reed celltech161 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 29 10:12:59 EST 2017 

I've been having the same issue. As a workaround I'm going back to the method that avoided problems on irlp.  At 3am I disconnect and at 3:05am reconnect. Since doing this I haven't been seeing the issue.

Regards,
Justin

> On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Eric Harrison via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> I have recently experience the same issue. Permanent connected node for several days on the network is only giving one way audio.
>  Eric (N7JYS) 
> Marshall's Communications
> 
>      From: C B via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> To: "doug at crompton.com" <doug at crompton.com> 
> Cc: C B <harvard5362 at yahoo.com>; ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 8:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Permanent link failing
> 
> Hi
> the same problem happened again this time 2 nodes connected on the same HP 2920 switch, thus no way for this to be a connectivity issue.
> the link only passed audio and signaling in one direction.
> dialing *70 both nodes reported connected and transceive.
> droping the link with *71XXXXX and restoring with *73XXXXX cleared the issue
> i was not near a computer and the net was about to begin thus i could not look at the asterisk CLI for any errors.
> upon review of the logs at /var/logs/asterisk/messages there where no messages during the time that this error occurred on either node.
> Please i do really need some help with this.
> Chris 
> 
> 
> 
>       From: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> To: C B <harvard5362 at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Permanent link failing
>   
> Chris,
> 
>  Unfortunately I don't really have an answer for your problem. Sometimes what you think is a reliable connection is really not. It it was a private 100% up link then a non permanent connection should stay up. Did you try that and determine if it stays up any length of time.
> 
> Also monitor the logs in the client or at /var/log/asterisk/messages.
> 
> 73 Doug
> WA3DSP
> http://www.crompton.com/ hamradio
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:29 PM, C B <harvard5362 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> All nodes involved here are my nodes.
> All are your code on PI-3's with the latest updates.
> Very stable on my microwave.
> Not relying on the /tmp/rpt_extnodes file  as all are hard coded in the rpt.conf file with the ip address and port number as my nodes are all on the same private sub-net. Below is a example of what is in the rpt.conf file i only pasted the first 3 lines. i commented out 1999 as it is not used. Information for all of my nodes are in the rpt.conf as they all have a differnt port and are behing the same firewall.
> 43816 = radio at 127.0.0.1/43816,NONE;1999 = radio at 127.0.0.1/1999,NONE27008 = radio at 10.0.1.22:4568/27008, NONE
> The nodes think they are connected as allmon2 reports them as connected and if i am not mistaken allmon2 gets its connection information from each node.
> this issue is very intermittent and not easily repeated. It occurs anywhere from a few days to a few months, and as it does not show up as an issue on allmon2 it is hard to know when it has occurred.
> Thank you again for your help.
> 
> 
> 
>       From: Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> 
> Cc: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Permanent link failing
>   
> 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:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Randomly my Permanent links are acting as if they are notconnected. Almon2
>> still shows them as connected however the signals to not passthru.
>> 
>> 
>> Background on my configuration.
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Every so often a node no longer is linked but it still showslinked in
>> allmon2.
>> 
>> 
>> Restarting asterisk resolved this issue.
>> 
>> 
>> 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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