[arm-allstar] Startup Macro Delay in rpt.conf - How to make longer than 120 seconds?

[Patrick Perdue]

Yep, unless this is a case of you are trying to connect to an ASL node 
which uses a local rpt_extnodes file, and your node has either been 
offline for a while, or it's IP address has changed. By default, the 
rc.updatenodelist script only downloads rpt_extnodes every 10 minutes. 
So, depending on how timing plays out, you may not be able to connect to 
such a node anywhere from a few seconds to 10 minutes after your node 
registers.

Also, the rc.updatenodelist script that ships with ASL 1.01 likes to 
silently fail sometimes. I'm not saying this is the problem, I don't 
know enough about that system.

Initial investigation suggests that node40668 is a HamVoIP node, so this 
is probably all irrelevant to you anyway.

73
N2DYI

On 10/4/2022 4:35 AM, "David McGough via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> Steve,
>
> The maximum for the macro startup delay is 120 seconds.  If 120 seconds
> isn't long enough, your network connection probably isn't stable??
> ...And, another solution is needed.
>
> 73, David K4FXC
>
>
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, "Steve Sedgwick via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>
>> I use Startup macro in the rpt.conf to connect to another node after
> powering up my node and I set the Startup macro delay to 90 seconds to
> delay the startup macro to allow everything to become stable before
> issuing.  For example, the startup macro is *7340668 and the startup
> macro delay is set to 90 for a 90 second delay.  I noticed sometime the
> connection does not work, so I wanted to delay the startup macro longer,
> for example 300 seconds.  What I found was the maximum Startup macro
> delay time was 120 seconds. If I entered a longer delay, for example 300
> seconds, it still only delayed the startup macro by 120 seconds.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way to delay the startup macro
> longer that 120 seconds?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve_WB8GRS
>
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