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Setting up UIVIEW as a Local Server


 

I have UI VIEW working on a Windows 7 PC.
It is has a VHF Radio and a TNC-X connected to it and it is getting a bunch of stations from the internet and from RF.

In the APRS Server Setup I have Enable Local Server Selected.

This computer is at IP Address 192.168.61.10

I have a second computer on the same Lan with address 192.168.61.11. I want it to get the data that is on the server. The mix of RF and Internet data.

In the APRS Server Setup in the list of servers, I insert 192.168.61.10:1448 and then select it.

I set the APRS Server Logon Required,

I use my validation number

I enable autoreconnect

I use the same filter as on the server "filter m/100"

After I connect to server, I only see the station of the server in the terminal and in the station list.

I must be missing something, but I do not know why only the server information is coming out the port, and none of the other stations from RF or Internet that the local server can see.

Any ideas?

Kip

AE5IB


 

On 11/30/2016 10:55 PM, Kipton Moravec kip@... [ui-view] wrote:

I have UI VIEW working on a Windows 7 PC.
It is has a VHF Radio and a TNC-X connected to it and it is getting a
bunch of stations from the internet and from RF.

In the APRS Server Setup I have Enable Local Server Selected.

This computer is at IP Address 192.168.61.10

I have a second computer on the same Lan with address 192.168.61.11. I
want it to get the data that is on the server. The mix of RF and
Internet data.

In the APRS Server Setup in the list of servers, I insert
192.168.61.10:1448 and then select it.

I set the APRS Server Logon Required,


I use my validation number
The logon and validation are irrelevant. The local server doesn't have the
kind of full-blown user validation that a "real" server has. You are just
sending "trash" back to the first machine. Note that the local server is
bi-directional. Stuff sent FROM the second machine will go back to the first
machine and then be forwarded to both the Internet and to RF.


I enable autoreconnect

I use the same filter as on the server "filter m/100"
Again, the local server is not an intelligent server that interprets commands
like a real APRS-IS server. It simply echoes anything and everything heard by
the machine it is running on. It doesn't do any kind of interpretation of the
packets it forwards or receives. The filter expression is falling on deaf ears.
You unavoidably get EVERYTHING the first machine hears.

After I connect to server, I only see the station of the server in the
terminal and in the station list.

I must be missing something, but I do not know why only the server
information is coming out the port, and none of the other stations from
RF or Internet that the local server can see.
I don't understand what you are saying. By "server information", do you
mean that you see only see the local server's host machine beacons/icons but
no one else?

I have run many instances of the local server on my systems with no problems.

Could you have an overly aggressive firewall configuration on the machine
running the local server that is blocking attempts by the second machine from
connecting. (You would have to poke a hole in the firewall of the first
machine for port 1448 to allow incoming connection requests from the second
machine.)

By the way, what flavors of Windows are the two machines running?

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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype: WA8LMF
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:

_______ Windows 10 Outrages! _______
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Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps
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Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF
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On 12/01/2016 12:19 PM, 'Stephen H. Smith' wa8lmf@... [ui-view] wrote:
On 11/30/2016 10:55 PM, Kipton Moravec kip@... [ui-view] wrote:
I have UI VIEW working on a Windows 7 PC.
It is has a VHF Radio and a TNC-X connected to it and it is getting a
bunch of stations from the internet and from RF.

In the APRS Server Setup I have Enable Local Server Selected.

This computer is at IP Address 192.168.61.10

I have a second computer on the same Lan with address 192.168.61.11. I
want it to get the data that is on the server. The mix of RF and
Internet data.

In the APRS Server Setup in the list of servers, I insert
192.168.61.10:1448 and then select it.

I set the APRS Server Logon Required,


I use my validation number
The logon and validation are irrelevant. The local server doesn't have the
kind of full-blown user validation that a "real" server has. You are just
sending "trash" back to the first machine. Note that the local server is
bi-directional. Stuff sent FROM the second machine will go back to the first
machine and then be forwarded to both the Internet and to RF.

I enable autoreconnect

I use the same filter as on the server "filter m/100"
Again, the local server is not an intelligent server that interprets commands
like a real APRS-IS server. It simply echoes anything and everything heard by
the machine it is running on. It doesn't do any kind of interpretation of the
packets it forwards or receives. The filter expression is falling on deaf ears.
You unavoidably get EVERYTHING the first machine hears.

After I connect to server, I only see the station of the server in the
terminal and in the station list.

I must be missing something, but I do not know why only the server
information is coming out the port, and none of the other stations from
RF or Internet that the local server can see.
I don't understand what you are saying. By "server information", do you
mean that you see only see the local server's host machine beacons/icons but
no one else?

I have run many instances of the local server on my systems with no problems.

Could you have an overly aggressive firewall configuration on the machine
running the local server that is blocking attempts by the second machine from
connecting. (You would have to poke a hole in the firewall of the first
machine for port 1448 to allow incoming connection requests from the second
machine.)

By the way, what flavors of Windows are the two machines running?

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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
The server .10 (AE5IB) machine is only sending the packets originating from AE5IB. It was not getting any of the other stations I could see on the screen.

It turns out something screwed up. It was not connected to the APRS server, So it was not getting new data. I did not notice this, because I had so many stations on the screen. However the next morning there were no stations on the screen except for AE5IB. When I tried to connect it said I could not connect within 30 seconds.

It took a reboot to clear it, and now it is working.

It was not a firewall issue because both were on the local lan, a sub network of my home lan separated by a router. The idea is I can take the router to the communications trailer and have the server IP address preconfigured. We can use a wireless hotspot (like a cell phone) and an access point into the router WAN port to give us internet access so we can igate and pull any units for the Dallas Marathon that I can not get directly from RF. Downtown Dallas is pretty well covered for APRS. We will have 4 nets running at the same time in the trailer and each will want their own APRS map so they can zoom in where they want, and also see where the lead runners and where the the last runners are. All the SAG wagons, medics, and a number of other units all have APRS trackers so we know where they are.

I currently have a older dual core laptop 4GB RAM running UI-View and have OSM Maps, have a RF connection with a TNC-X, connected to a T2 server, and acting as a local server to 1 other computer. The Windows Task manager says I am at around 85% CPU Usage. That is a little higher than I would like to see. I may have to switch computers to my newer one with an 8 core i7 and 8GB RAM. I do not think RAM is the issue as it says I am using 2.15 GB.

As I was writing this, both processors pegged at 100%, and it is not getting data from the server anymore. Looks like it is hanging. And now I am not getting any data to the other computer either. After a couple of minutes it started up again. I think this computer is running out of gas. I am guessing I need to switch to the much faster one.

Kip
AE5IB


 

On 12/1/2016 10:17 PM, Kipton Moravec kip@... [ui-view] wrote:
I currently have a older dual core laptop 4GB RAM running UI-View and
have OSM Maps, have a RF connection with a TNC-X, connected to a T2
server, and acting as a local server to 1 other computer. The Windows
Task manager says I am at around 85% CPU Usage. That is a little higher
than I would like to see. I may have to switch computers to my newer one
with an 8 core i7 and 8GB RAM. I do not think RAM is the issue as it
says I am using 2.15 GB.

As I was writing this, both processors pegged at 100%, and it is not
getting data from the server anymore. Looks like it is hanging. And now
I am not getting any data to the other computer either. After a couple
of minutes it started up again. I think this computer is running out of
gas. I am guessing I need to switch to the much faster one.
There is something seriously screwed up here!!!


UIview DOES NOT need massive amounts of computing resources. It was born (and
died) in the era of Pentium IIIs with 512K of RAM.

I am currently running the UZ7HO Soundmodem soundcard soft TNC, THREE instances
of UIview, one copy of the UIwebserver, -AND- Echolink simultaneously on an
elderly Dell Dimension 4600. This is a single core Pentium 4 tower with 1GB of
RAM running Windows7-32 Home Basic. In this configuration, I am seeing only
20% CPU utilization with all this running.

Further, I have run the Soundmodem and TWO copies of UIview on a Dell Dimension
L866r, which is an 866MHz Pentium III with a mere 512K of RAM under Windows POS
2009 (a still supported version of what is essentially XP SP3). I am not
maxing out RAM and the CPU loading is only about 30%.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype: WA8LMF
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:

_______ Windows 10 Outrages! _______
<>

Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps
<>

Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF
<>