[arm-allstar] echolink causing the repeater to TX silence?

[Richard Bateman]

There is a good chance it's a particular user; that's good to know.  We'll
have to think on that one :-/

Thanks Doug,

Richard

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:13 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Richard,
>
>    Unfortunately Echolink in Allstar lacks the timers that would disconnect
> a errant Echolink node that someone left in TX or left in TX and then
> disconnected. In your case it sounds like the user lost connection in the
> keyed state. Echolink is not Allstar in that regard. Unfortunately we have
> to live with some of these idiosyncrasies of Echolink if we choose to use
> it. Looking at possible Echolink timers is on our list of things to look at
> but not the highest priority right now.
>
> If this is happening all the time when anyone connects to Echolink then
> there might be some other issue but if it seldom happens or happens only
> with a specific Echolink user then it is probably a fault on the other end.
> Lets us know what you are experiencing over time. We have not seen this
> issue in general being a problem.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:40 PM, "Richard Bateman via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been experiencing a weird issue where someone trying to use echolink
> > on my repeater causes the repeater to stop responding properly; it leaves
> > the PTT closed and stops retransmitting audio until I restart asterisk.
> The
> > only thing I see in the logs is a bunch of "ERROR[519] chan_echolink.c:
> > Cannot find DB entry for IP addr x.x.x.x. Trying to update database!"
> > messages during the time period when the issue occurs.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas? I might just have to disable echolink, but some
> club
> > members like to use it to participate in nets and I'd prefer to allow
> them
> > that option.
> >
> > Richard
> > KD7BBC
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