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

[Will Bashlor]

Thanks for the reply Jim. That's a great thought. The node is at my house
and I have Cable Internet 50mbps/5mbps and it is served by DHCP, but it is
reserved. So it does still renew at half the lease time but the IP doesn't
change. Since the IP never changes I wouldn't think that would affect it any
but I could set it static just to rule it out.

 

I plan to move the node down the road to a datacenter. There I have
1gbps/1gbps fiber connection and a virtual Sophos firewall that I can easily
bypass for troubleshooting. But I'm not ready to move it yet and I would
love to fix it where it's located now.

 

While thinking and typing I have another idea too. I have an AllStar DIAL
hub server with 4 radioless nodes at the same datacenter (currently not
behind the virtual Sophos firewall). So what I will do is permanent connect
hub node 46690 to the echolink conference and permanent connect 46648 to
46690. Doing that could rule out several things, or at least narrow it down
to something at my house. I heard someone after the AllStar tech net Tuesday
night say that it's a bad idea to permanent connect to an echolink
conference, can anyone expand on that?

 

If anyone else has any other ideas please let me know.

 

73

Will, KE4IAJ

TARG <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=196073504193006&ref=br_rs>
AEC

 

 

 

From: App_rpt-users [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces at lists.allstarlink.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] 24/7 Echolink Connection Dropping Audio

 

This is a long shot, but is your public IP address served by DHCP, or is it
a static IP?  If it's DHCP, chances are your IP address is changing from
underneath you.  I've seen this behavior on IRLP nodes in the past.

 

Jim, K6JWN

 

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

 

Hello all,

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I am wide open for suggestions. Any ideas or anyone experienced this issue
before? Thanks in advance and 73.

 

Will, KE4IAJ

TARG <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=196073504193006&ref=br_rs>
AEC

 

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