Chuck is correct. We have a weekly net on one of our hubs and there is one node that connects to the hub for the net. It is attempting to reconnect every 5 or 10 minutes.
On most of the nodes that connect for the net we have set up the telemetry for "timed telemetry" in the rpt.conf file.

telemdefault=2            ; timed local telemetry

This turns off the connection announcements during the net unless you issue a command locally then the telemetry is enabled for about 5 minutes then goes silent.
But not all of the nodes have this setting so those nodes will spew out the "remote already in this mode" messages.

It is very annoying. Unfortunately the telemetry setting is not the fix but a band aid solution.

In our case we know the offending node # but cant get a hold of the owner to tell then to fix it.
And on top of that they are connecting with a persistent connection to the hub so we can t dump them at our end.

I dont know what the problem with their node is unless they are running some sort of script or cron job that does the reconnection instead of the normal ilink commands for persistent connection.

In the functions stanza:

91=ilink,13            ; establish perm link to xxxx
92=ilink,11            ; disconnect perm link xxxx

So instead of using *3(NODE) to connect you would use *91(NODE) or *92(NODE ) to disconnect a persistent link.
*1(NODE) will not disconnect a persistent link, must use the *92 in that case.

If the perm connections are done using this method then there should be no reconnection messages sent to all the other connected nodes. The node will attempt to reconnect silently to keep a persistent connection.

hope this helps.

Jon VA3RQ

On 1/4/2018 10:10 AM, Chuck Kraly wrote:

That is the telemetry message and indicates that auto-connect or re-connect is on SOMEWHERE on your connections. It is annoying as heck if you do not have control over the node that is spewing it, and you have no control over it. A hub we used to connect to did this all the time and cannot re-connect due to this....our users screamed about the messages...

Chuck K0XM

BYRG

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Bryan Taylor <overnite@me.com> wrote:

Hopefully a quick question,

For a few days now I have one allstar node playing the “remote already in this mode” message about every 10 minutes. Anybody have any idea as to what could be causing it or where I could look to see what is causing it? It never did it before. I did add a new node to the network a few days ago but I did add the new node to it’s nodes stanza. It only connects to a hub node directly.

There is nothing in the log files that points to anything.

Google doesn’t find anything helpful either.

Thanks
Bryan
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