[App_rpt-users] 24/7 Echolink Connection Dropping Audio

[David McGough]

Will,

What software is being run on the 4544 echolink conference server?


73, David KB4FXC


On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Will Bashlor wrote:

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> This issue is still happening often and I’m fairly convinced it’s a bug or something within AllStar.
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> I see this issue with the Crompton image and the official ASL image on a radioless hub node directly connected to the Internet without a firewall. I see nothing helpful in any of the logs.
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> I also have word that it’s happening on other AllStar connected repeaters connected to Echolink for periods of time (i.e. Valdosta, GA repeater(s).
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> To describe the issue again in the simplest way, radioless hub node 46690 is connected to node 3004544. When the issue happens, audio stops flowing from 3004544 to 46690. Someone can talk on the 3004544 conference but anyone listening on 46690 and hear them, but when they reply back no audio ever makes it to 46690.
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> To resolve the issue you can simple disconnect 46690 from 3004544 and reconnect, then it works fine, until it happens again which may be 10 minutes or 2 weeks.
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> What would be a good way to bring this issue to the AllStar developers as a bug to be investigated and hopefully solved?
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> Thanks and Merry Christmas.
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> 73
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> Will, KE4IAJ
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> From: Will Bashlor [mailto:will at bashlor.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:41 AM
> To: 'Users of Asterisk app_rpt' <app_rpt-users at lists.allstarlink.org>
> Subject: 24/7 Echolink Connection Dropping Audio
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> Hello all,
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> We have an AllStar node setup using a Pi 3, DMK URI, and a Yaesu 7800. It’s AllStar Node 46648 and it’s connected to 3004544 (echolink) 24/7.
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> It works fine most of the time, but intermittently the audio quits working in the Internet to node/radio direction. It shows up on allmon2 and echolink as connected and if you talk RF everyone on the echolink network can hear you, but when they talk back no audio comes through to 46648 or to the Yaesu that’s connected to it and it doesn’t turn green on allmon2. If I disconnect the echolink node and connect it again it fixes the no audio until it happens again. I’ve tried with a normal connect and a permanent connect and the same thing happens using both. It may be 30 minutes or 3 days before it happens again.
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> I wouldn’t mind it disconnecting every now and then because I have a script running (also tested without the script running) that automatically connects it back, but I have no way to detect when the audio drops except listening to it on echolink and my node at the same time.
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> I am using a Ubiquiti Edge X router and have 4569, 5198, and 5199 UDP forwarded correctly (I’m a network guy). I’ve checked the asterisk log but it’s so full of brute force attacks I can’t really find any clue of what’s going on.
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> I am wide open for suggestions. Any ideas or anyone experienced this issue before? Thanks in advance and 73.
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> Will, KE4IAJ
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