The permanent connection is more of a persistent connection.
Using a normal connection will work but eventually the connection may drop due to internet latency (auto congest) or other reasons.
If you normally are connected to another node on a full time basis then the perm connection may be desirable.

What it does is keeps your node connected to the other node. If there is a loss of network connection it will re establish the connection automatically when the internet recovers.
This is only true if both nodes are up an running.

If a node was restarted or rebooted then the connection will have made manually.
If you want the connection to be made if a node is restarted then set up a macro to establish the perm connection. Then define a startup macro in your node stanza to call the macro to connect the two nodes when the node starts.

Jon VA3RQ

On 12/10/2013 11:54 AM, KJ6KO wrote:

Can someone explain to me the advantage of a "Permanent Connection" and how it works?

Is it supposed to auto reconnect in the event of an internet outage?

Is it supposed to reconnect after a reboot? If so, a total reboot or just an ASTRES.sh restart?

Thanks...Greg KJ6KO

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