[arm-allstar] Node not connecting

[Doug Crompton]

Peter,

 When using two nodes on two servers on the same LAN unless you port
forward the iax ports of BOTH and the router has hairpin loopback
capability they will not connect to each other. The reason for this is that
Allstar looks up the IP address and they are both the same public IP so the
router has to work on ports not IP addresses in that case. That is why it
needs port forwarding because otherwise it has no idea where (what IP) the
port is on.

In the case that your router does not work in this fashion or perhaps you
don't want to port forward one or both nodes the answer is that you have to
specifically route them to each other locally with ip address AND port. Let
say you had two servers with one at IP address 100 node 55555 port 4569 and
the other at 101 node 55556 port 4570.

On node the 55555 node in rpt.conf [nodes] stanza at the end of the file -

55556 = radio at 192.168.0.101:4570/55556,NONE  ; route to node 55556

and on node 55556 in rpt.conf [nodes] stanza at the end of the file -

55555 = radio at 192.168.0.100:4569/55555,NONE  ; route to node 55555

This gives local direct addresses between your nodes. Of course use your
values above.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 4:26 PM "Peter Paul Fox via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I have built two nodes Both worked but one node had very noisy audio.
> Using identical BF888s, I swapped radios but it made no difference.
> I then swapped the FOB on thhe noisy node and the audio from the RPI comes
> through clearly, but the node will not connect to any node even my other
> node.
> Been In the hamvoip interface and redone the wired  network setup but no
> change. I am using a different port from the other node and the bindaddress
> is correct.
> Checked rpt.conf and asterisk.conf but can't see any changes likely to
> cause a problem. PTT and COS signals all working. Any ideas?
>
> Peter Paul Fox G8HAV
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