[App_rpt-users] Echolink Link Status

[Tony KT9AC]

Thanks for all your hard work Jim!

If anyone is worried about how our nodes look on Echolink (the [0/20] 
thing), inside /etc/asterisk/echolink.conf is a line called "maxstns" 
that we can change. I set mine to 1 and still was able to outbound 
connect to two Echolink nodes at the same time, so its mostly cosmetic.


Tony

On 01/22/2011 04:14 PM, Jim Duuuude wrote:
> Our architecture for Echolink differs a great deal from most others. 
> Since there is no sane
> reason in the universe to do otherwise, our Echolink presence is both 
> more-or-less a "conference",
> since it will ALWAYS accept multiple inbound connections and tie them 
> together (as any connection
> is on an app_rpt node), and have the ability to support multiple 
> outbound connections (also tied together
> with everything else on the app_rpt node) simultaneously. There is no 
> reason to create "artificial"
> limitations of this nature.
>
> Since the Echolink reporting system is really designed for 
> implementation that basically do
> "one thing at a time", there is only a concept of a single status 
> message. To make a (rather
> feeble) attempt at "fitting into the mold", I decided to report the 
> "inbound" status when there
> are no outbound connections active. If outbound connections are 
> active, it reports the information
> for the last one connected (if multiple outbound connections are active).
>
> Therefore, by definition, the node can *never* be "busy" according to 
> the Echolink reporting
> definition of "busy".
>
> And yes, the "20" means "of 20 maximum connections". However, the 
> connection limit was never
> implemented (after all, I try to avoid artifical limits on things). If 
> and when there is a compelling reason
> do to so, I will. Currently, the system will take as many connections 
> as there is bandwidth and CPU power for.
>
> JIM WB6NIL
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:26:22 -0600
> > From: kt9ac at ameritech.net
> > To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> > Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Echolink Link Status
> >
> > Just updated my test system to 0.281 and verified that when idle it
> > shows a [0/20] next to my QTH. When connected, shows the "In conference
> > with..." status.
> >
> > Does this mean we can host 20 connections from Echolink per Allstar
> > node? Also, when would the "ON" versus "BUSY" flag change.
> >
> > I don't use Echolink a lot, but its interesting...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tony
> >
> > On 01/21/2011 11:26 PM, K&R Yoksh wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:27:15 -0800
> > >> From: Jim Duuuude
> > >> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Echolink Link Status
> > >>
> > >> Chan_echolink now supports proper display/reporting to the echolink
> > >> server stuff.
> > >
> > > Hello Jim (and the group),
> > >
> > > Many thanks for this great addition!
> > >
> > > 73.
> > >
> > > Kyle
> > > K0KN
> > >
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