[arm-allstar] If a node connects to another node, and the 2nd node later disconnects, is the 1st node or ASL notified?

[David Gleason]

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick reply and for solving this mystery. That would 
explain why ASL stats would not get updated.

BTW I did also open a ticket with ASL and asked (in the meantime until 
the newer FW is widely deployed) if they might be able to do a 
fix/enhancement to the stats to cross reference the connection data and 
only show connections on their website if both nodes report the 
connection. Otherwise in this case people were concluding that one node 
was 'hacking' the other node and connecting to it without the other 
node's knowledge, which seems highly unlikely because a node is probably 
not going to forward VOIP packets anywhere if it doesn't know a 
connection is open.

Thanks,
David
NR9V

On 7/4/2022 7:24 AM, David McGough via ARM-allstar wrote:
> David,
>
> I just looked at the ASL stats pages. Node 404122 needs to be updated,
> it's running the original HamVoIP 1.7 release, which had the stats bug.
>
> http://stats.allstarlink.org/stats/404122
>
>
> 73, David K4FXC
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2022, "David McGough via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>
>> Make sure your node is fully updated using option #1 from the admin menu,
>> this issue was corrected in the hamvoip-V1.7.0-03 release in Jan, 2022.
>>
>>
>> 73, David K4FXC
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, "David Gleason via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>
>>> I notice that if someone connects to my ASL node and I later disconnect
>>> them from my node, that the ASL stats pages (at least in some cases)
>>> then continue to show that the other node is still connected to my node
>>> even though it is definitely not (eg. my node might then be powered off
>>> for hours yet is still shown in other nodes' ASL stats pages and bubble
>>> charts). In terms of the IAX protocol packets exchanged between the
>>> nodes, when a node disconnects an inbound connection is the originating
>>> node notified? And is a stats update sent to ASL?  If so, why would the
>>> ASL stats pages continue to show a node as being connected when in fact
>>> it is not connected (and may have been powered off for hours or days).
>>> Any tips on these connect/disconnect protocol details would be much
>>> appreciated. Seems it would be helpful to nodes that originated a
>>> connection and to the ASL stats system to know when a destination node
>>> closed a connection so their stats would then be correct and up-to-date.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
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