[App_rpt-users] Best way to link multiple nodes

[Doug Crompton]

Configuring one node as the "hub" is a good way to do it but that node does not have to be a pseudo node. It can have a radio or repeater connected just like any of the satellite nodes. I would suggest that the hub has a boot macro that does a permanent connect to all of the satellite nodes. The advantage being that all you have to do is reboot/restart one node to recreate the connections. The disadvantage of this scheme is that it is totally dependent on one node and its Internet connection for the system to work. Of course if the hub node was a central repeater then it would not make much difference anyway. It would have to work for the system to be functional.

I use this scheme and it works well. An alternative that might even work better would be to have the satellite nodes setup in a boot macro to permanently connect to the hub. Either way if you reboot/restart any one node it would recover.  

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> From: kf7mbk at w7ara.net
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:40:34 -0700
> To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Best way to link multiple nodes
> 
> I have set up an allstar system with 5 private nodes (soon to be 7).
> 
> I can link the individual nodes to one another, or say 4 of the nodes
> to the 5th, but is there a better way?  I was looking at ConfBridge
> but couldn't get it to work.. not even sure it would work.
> 
> I tried several things (I'm still learning) but I made an entry under
> [radio-secure]
> exten => 1000,1,ConfBridge(101)
> 
> I was hoping to be able to do *31000 and connect to the bridge.  But
> it did nothing.
> 
> I just want to be able to have multiple bridges and be free to connect
> any node to any bridge.  If I connect all the nodes to a single node,
> I can no longer take that single node and connected it to something
> else without disconnecting all the other nodes connected to it.
> 
> Just not sure what the norm is...if there is one.
> 
> Thanks
> -Mike
> KF7MBK
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