Nodes will attempt to connect to the public IP unless you tell them not to with the [nodes] stanza.

If you know how a hosts file works it the same sort of thing: App_rpt first looks for the node’s IP address in the [nodes] stanza. If not found it looks in the rpt_extnodes file. Being that you didn’t have the node listed in your [nodes] stanza it uses rpt_extnodes and hence the public IP. 

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Tim
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On Feb 9, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Mike Lussier <mike.lussier@gmail.com> wrote:

I figured with them on the same subnet they would talk directly to each other and there was no need to go out to the internet to make their connection.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Tim Sawyer <tim.sawyer@mac.com> wrote:

I’m assuming your nodes are on separate servers. 

Some routers don’t do what is called hairpin NAT. That is connecting from an address on your NATed to the public IP address of a service on the same NATed network won’t work.

Or the problem could be that your servers are set to the same port and/or the router port forwarding is not correct.

In any case nodes on the same NATed network should have the IP address of the other nodes listed in the [nodes] stanza of rpt.conf. The port is needed if not default (4569). 

[nodes]

; Note, if you are using automatic update for allstar link nodes,

; no allstar link nodes should be defined here. Only place a definition

; for your local nodes, and private (off of allstar link) nodes here.

2510 = radio@127.0.0.1:4570/2510,NONE                    ; Local node

2502 = radio@192.168.1.12:4571/2502,NONE  ; other node

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Tim
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On Feb 9, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Mike Lussier <mike.lussier@gmail.com> wrote:

Good afternoon all,

I have two nodes on my internal network. both on the same subnet. for the past 16 hours if I look at either node that show state as "Connecting" and not connected .

Any thoughts ? I tried it once from one node running a script and before I went to bed last night I tried it from the other side.

Mike AE4ML

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