[pskmail] Re: Server and client stops talking.

  • From: Steve <stevez@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:07:28 +1100

Hello John,
Thanks for the advice regarding the freqs.txt file. As soon as I get the server sorted, that's exactly what is going in. Here at home I'm trying to emulate the sort of conditions I would have out bush. I have the FT-817 transmitting into a dummy-load. I then adjust the power so that the copy on the server isn't perfect, but still usable. It works on MFSK32, but not PSK125 for instance. Anyway, this problem seems to happen if I do not send a disconnect (just abort), or if the disconnect message is not received properly by the server. I'm pretty sure this also happened the other night (0.32 server code). The thing I noticed is that the server still responded to a beacon manually sent from the client. 
I'm going to try and reproduce it this morning and confirm this.

Steve Z.


On 02/06/2010 07:58 AM, John Douyere wrote:

Steve,

For the slow modes I in fact do not fill the mode line of the
freqs.txt file with the same mode to avoid exactly the same problem
that you mention. I do the following:

PSK125,XXXX,XXXX,XXXX,XXXX,

That way it returns to psk125 every 5 minutes, but if I have a connect
or beacon coming across two minutes it does not reset the fldigi modem
and break the frame, except of course if I am across the last and
first minutes.

For the other issue, how did you get to the stage where the server
disconnected: disconnect request, abort, timeout during a data
transfer or timeout while idle?

Regards,

John

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Steve<stevez@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

The $scanner variable is set to "S". It does work usually (in fact it works
too well sometimes - if I'm doing a connect on a slow mode, it will
sometimes change back to PSK125 in the middle of the connect sequence..)

Killed server
Restarted
FLDigi changed mode to psk125

log shows :-
07:41 UTC Feb-5-2010:>  Status : last=0 good=0 end=0 missing=
07:50 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050750z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

08:00 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050800z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

08:10 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050810z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

08:20 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050820z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

08:30 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050830z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

08:35 UTC Feb-5-2010: Program start
Program start: 08:35 UTC Feb-5-2010
08:35 UTC Feb-5-2010: Connected to netherlands.aprs2.net port 1314
08:35 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Listening to the radio


Please note that I did see this on previous server versions (at least 0.32).


Steve.




On 02/05/2010 07:26 PM, Rein Couperus wrote:

Hmmm... there is no error message.

What is the value of the $scanner= parameter in pskmailrc.pl?
For mode only scanning it should be 'S'.

What is the problem? Does the server remain in connected mode?

What happens if you do:
* stop the server
* do a 'killall rflinkserver.pl'
* restart the server.


Rein




OK more woes.

Latest .33 server. Latest client.

My slow-speed connection tests have been better, but if I do not
disconnect properly the server goes weird.

A couple of things happen.

1) The qrg/freqs.txt file is ignored (it's been 20 mins and the server
hasn't changed mode to PSK125 which fills all 5 positions in this file).
2) The server stops beaconing.

I think I need to stay away from apha code!

Last few lines of server.log

07:19 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=3 good=1 end=1 missing=
07:19 UTC Feb-5-2010: Receiving compressed mail
07:19 UTC Feb-5-2010: Connection open...
07:19 UTC Feb-5-2010: Connection open...
07:19 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=3 good=2 end=2 missing=
07:20 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=3 good=4 end=4 missing=
07:20 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050720z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

07:21 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=3 good=4 end=4 missing=
07:22 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Data:  4
~QTC 0+

07:22 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=4 good=4 end=4 missing=
07:22 UTC Feb-5-2010: Pop defined
07:22 UTC Feb-5-2010: Authenticated
07:22 UTC Feb-5-2010: Got message list
07:22 UTC Feb-5-2010: QTC received...
07:24 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=4 good=9 end=9 missing=
07:24 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Data:  5
~DELETE 1

07:24 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=5 good=9 end=9 missing=
07:24 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=5 good=10 end=10 missing=
07:25 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=5 good=10 end=10 missing=
07:30 UTC Feb-5-2010: No aprs message in file
07:31 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Listening to the radio
07:34 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Connect: VK2ZSZ:1024 VK2ZSZ-1:24 1

07:34 UTC Feb-5-2010: Added VK2ZSZ to link list
07:34 UTC Feb-5-2010: Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR,TCPIP*::PSKAPR
:GATING VK2ZSZ

07:34 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=0 good=0 end=0 missing=
07:34 UTC Feb-5-2010: Call VK2ZSZ o.k.
07:34 UTC Feb-5-2010: Connected to VK2ZSZ07:40 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050740z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

07:41 UTC Feb-5-2010:>    Status : last=0 good=0 end=0 missing=
07:50 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050750z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

08:00 UTC Feb-5-2010:
Send>APRS-IS:VK2ZSZ-1>PSKAPR:@050800z3534.64NP14922.09E&PSKmail
Server-0.9.33

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