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Re: Sorry - System Tables Full.

Richard Hendricks
 

Mike:

I changed back my MAXNODES to 550, and this is what I got:

COSCO:KE0GB-7}

Uptime (Days Hours Mins) 00:00:25

Semaphore Get-Rel/Clashes 1 0

Buffers:Max/Cur/Min/Out/Wait 929 928 863 0 0

Known Nodes/Max Nodes 301 550

L4 Connects Sent/Rxed 1 16

L4 Frames TX/RX/Resent/Reseq 137 131 1 0

L3 Frames Relayed 51

c 4 wb4qoj-7

COSCO:KE0GB-7} Sorry - System Tables Full

Here are the parameters on my AX/IP/UDP port:

---------------NETROM NODES PARAMETERS---------------------------------------

; Network System Parameters:

OBSINIT=6 ; Initial obsolescence set when a node is included

; in a received nodes broadcast. This value is then

; decremented by 1 every NODESINTERVAL.

OBSMIN=4 ; When the obsolescence of a node falls below this

; value that node's information is not included in

; a subsequent nodes broadcast.

NODESINTERVAL=20 ; Nodes broadcast interval in minutes

IDINTERVAL=15 ; 'IDMSG' UI broadcast interval in minutes, 0=OFF

BTINTERVAL=30 ; The BTEXT broadcast interval in minutes, 0=OFF

L3TIMETOLIVE=30 ; Max L3 hops

L4RETRIES=3 ; Level 4 retry count

L4TIMEOUT=60 ; Level 4 timeout in seconds s/b > FRACK x RETRIES

L4DELAY=10 ; Level 4 delayed ack timer in seconds

L4WINDOW=4 ; Level 4 window size

MAXLINKS=63 ; Max level 2 links

MAXNODES=550 ; Max nodes in nodes table

MAXROUTES=64 ; Max qual adjacent nodes

MAXCIRCUITS=128 ; Max L4 nodes

MINQUAL=144 ; Minimum quality to add to nodes table

MAXHOPS=6 ; INP3 hop limit to add to tables

MAXRTT=90 ; INP3 max RTT in seconds

BUFFERS=130 ; Packet Buffers = 255 means allocate as many as possible,

?

; : normally about 130, depending on other table sizes.


Still giving me that darned System Tables Full error.

Rick
Re: Sorry - System Tables Full.

Richard Hendricks
 

Yep,
I was experimenting with the MAXNODES setting and set it to 350 as a test,
and forgot to put it back to it's usual 550.? Thanks for pointing it out, Mike.

73 - Rick
KE0GB
Re: Sorry - System Tables Full.

 

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Rick
?
System Tables Full is usually a indication the Known Nodes/Max Nodes are equal, using BPQ terminal
the S command then compare the Known Nodes/Max Nodes, you may have to increase the MAXNODES=
in the Global section of bpq32.cfg.
?
You can also lower the number of MAXROUTES= after much experimenting with Port QUALITY and MINQUAL
I have found Port Quality for AXIP best at 192 MINQUAL 144 I have my MAXNODES at 550.
?
On RF Ports you may want to increase MINQUAL to 191 or 192 keep in mind your partners that? have HF
and band openings will send more/less depending on the band.
?
The other way would be to lock routes of nodes sending very high routes to you, I have seen you routes sent to me
climb up very high, so just keep an eye on the Status, it is easy to have your node tables become flooded.
?
You should try to keep your
OBSINIT=6???
OBSMIN=4 as shown, they will make a big difference in the number of nodes & Routes received.
?
You should also update to the latest up available for your version of BPQ.
?
73

Mike Melnik-N9PMO
BPQ32 Groups.io Group Moderator

Virus-free.

Re: QTtermTCP Incoming Connects only

 

Now you have me curious as to why mine was not working.? EasyTerm worked though.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:45 PM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
Ok, Thanks for clarifying.

For others that want to use QtTermTCP with Direwolf, I installed DIrewolf on my PC and can make connections using the AGW Interface, so I don't think there is an incompatibility between them.

73
John

On 10/02/2021 13:22, Christopher Maness wrote:
I did not know about EasyTerm before this thread, so the problem was solved during this discussion.

-Chris KQ6UP?

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:45 AM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
I don't use Direwolf, but it works ok with SoundModem and I'd expect the
interface to be the same.

But if you prefer Easyterm anyway, what's your problem?

73,
John

On 09/02/2021 03:36, Christopher Maness wrote:
> I did that, and it didn't work.? It works with EasyTerm, and I like
> that app better because it has a mailbox.
>
> Chris KQ6UP
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:39 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
>> It sounds like you have TermTCP set up correctly for Direwolf as an AGW host.
>>
>> To initiate a connect:
>> 1. Click the Connect menu
>> 2. Click on AGW connect.
>> 3. Enter a call in the Call To box
>> 4. Under Radio Ports, select (highlight) Port1 first soundcard mono (or whatever is there for your direwolf host)
>> 5. Click OK
>>
>> if you don't select the radio port, nothing will happen, which sounds like the problem you ran into.
>>
>
>
>
>
Re: QTtermTCP Incoming Connects only

 

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Ok, Thanks for clarifying.

For others that want to use QtTermTCP with Direwolf, I installed DIrewolf on my PC and can make connections using the AGW Interface, so I don't think there is an incompatibility between them.

73
John

On 10/02/2021 13:22, Christopher Maness wrote:

I did not know about EasyTerm before this thread, so the problem was solved during this discussion.

-Chris KQ6UP?

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:45 AM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
I don't use Direwolf, but it works ok with SoundModem and I'd expect the
interface to be the same.

But if you prefer Easyterm anyway, what's your problem?

73,
John

On 09/02/2021 03:36, Christopher Maness wrote:
> I did that, and it didn't work.? It works with EasyTerm, and I like
> that app better because it has a mailbox.
>
> Chris KQ6UP
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:39 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
>> It sounds like you have TermTCP set up correctly for Direwolf as an AGW host.
>>
>> To initiate a connect:
>> 1. Click the Connect menu
>> 2. Click on AGW connect.
>> 3. Enter a call in the Call To box
>> 4. Under Radio Ports, select (highlight) Port1 first soundcard mono (or whatever is there for your direwolf host)
>> 5. Click OK
>>
>> if you don't select the radio port, nothing will happen, which sounds like the problem you ran into.
>>
>
>
>
>
Sorry - System Tables Full.

Richard Hendricks
 

Since updating to 16.0.21, I've been experiencing an occasional "Sorry - System Tables Full,
followed by a restart.? Looking in /var/log/syslog, I see a "Segmentation Fault", causing the
restart.? I've made sure my Streams in both the BBS Main Configuration and Chat Configuration
are set to 10 and no higher.? Buffers appear to be normal on the "Status" response.

I'm at a loss on this one.

Any ideas?

73 - Rick
KE0GB
Re: Problems with New Install of RMS Gateway using linbpq

 

The duplicate telnet port was a result of my clumsy fingers and failing to read what I had said prior to submitting. The ctrl-m is what happens when one takes something created on windoze and copies it to a linux system. Such a pain. But they do not hurt anything - they just look dumb.

The solution to my problem was to get linbpq 6.0.21..1 and remove 6.0.21.21 using the same bpq32.cfg in both instances.

I have a copy of 6.0.21.1 saved away in several places so I don't have this problem again. Revision 6.0.21.1 works just fine.


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:41 AM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
There are a couple of possible problems here. It may just be the way you've pasted your bpq32.cfg into the email, but you show two Telnet ports, and your APPLICATION line has ^M on the end.

?APPLICATION 1,RMS,C 1 CMS,KC5QOC-10^M

73,
John


On 09/02/2021 08:34, John H Mocho wrote:
I recently tried to reinstall an RMS gateway on a raspberry pi using linbpq
The hardware worked fine. I installed the latest version if Raspbin on a new SD card
I followed the same steps i had used before to get libbpq up and running.
I logged in via the web interface on a remote PC and was able to get to CMS ad find I had no messages.
The telnet part worked fine.
The I added the TNC-PI port by copying it from the instructions vi cut and paste so no errors there.
I made the necessary edits to the WL2KREPORT for callsign and grid square.

I the attempted to initiate an RMS Express session. It connects and just sits there,
I disconnected the RMS Express session and went into my easyterm session and connected to the site.

Like this:

*** Connected to station KC5QOC-10 2/9/2021 1:18:22 AM

Upon entering the ? to get a list of commands I see this:

:>?
KC5QOC} RMS CONNECT BYE INFO NODES PORTS ROUTES USERS MHEARD

So I tried the RMS command

:>RMS
Trying
*** KC5QOC-3 Connected to CMS
[WL2K-5.0-B2FWIHJM$]
;PQ: 84113130
CMS via KC5QOC >
:>bye
Disconnecting...

Worked as expected.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I am doing wrong?

Here is my bpq32.cfg with the passwords changed:
; Basic RMS configuration
SIMPLE ; This set a whole load of paramters to reasonable defaults
LOCATOR=DM65QD ; Set to your Grid Square to send reports to the BPQ32 Node Map system
NODECALL=KC5QOC
INFOMSG:
KC5QOC's RMS Gateway
***
PORT
?ID=Telnet Server
?DRIVER=TELNET
?CONFIG
?LOGGING=1
?CMS=1 ; Enable CMS Gateway
***^
PORT
?ID=Telnet Server
?DRIVER=TELNET
?CONFIG
?LOGGING=1
?CMS=1 ; Enable CMS Gateway
?CMSCALL=KC5QOC ; CMS Gateway Call for Secure CMS Access(normally same as NODECALL)
?CMSPASS=PASSWD ; Secure CMS Password
?HTTPPORT=8080 ; Port used for Web Management
?TCPPORT=8010 ; Port for Telnet Access
?FBBPORT=8011 ; Not required, but allows monitoring using BPQTermTCP
?MAXSESSIONS=10
?CloseOnDisconnect=1 ; Close Telent Session when Node disconnects
?USER=kc5qoc,PASSWD,KC5QOC,"",SYSOP
?ENDPORT
?; Add Radio Port(s) Here
PORT
?ID=1200 Baud 145.010
?TYPE=ASYNC
?PROTOCOL=KISS
?CHANNEL=A
?COMPORT=/dev/serial0
?SPEED=19200 ; Must by 19200 for TNC-Pi
?MAXFRAME=4
?FRACK=8000
?RESPTIME=1500
?RETRIES=10
?PACLEN=128
?KISSOPTIONS=PITNC,NOPARAMS
?WL2KREPORT PUBLIC, , 8778, KC5QOC-10, DM65QD, 00-23, 145010000, PKT1200, 10, 20, 5, 0
ENDPORT

?APPLICATION 1,RMS,C 1 CMS,KC5QOC-10^M
; EOF
Re: Problems with New Install of RMS Gateway using linbpq

 

This may be a holdover from many prior versions, and I use Windows, but...

I have always had a user named RMS that was marked as a BBS, and whose forwarding script was the single word RMS.

Has always worked, but I'm not sure it is still needed, or was ever needed on linux flavors...


Mark
Re: Cannot make QtTermTCP executable

 

John,

Yes, it works fine in Ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks!
Lee K5DAT


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:49 PM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
Lee,

Can you try this? It works on the system I built it on? (64 bit Debian 4.19 using? Qt version 5.11.3) but I don't have any other 64 bit systems to test with.



73,
John

On 09/02/2021 23:38, K5DAT wrote:


On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:11 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
Just FYI, I was able to install?ia32-libs on a new image of Ubuntu 20.04 last week (for a similar reason), and it looks like the LM deb for?ia32-libs available in the repos is fairly recent.

That might solve your problem.




Fyi in Ubuntu 20.04 I was able to follow the same instructions for older versions of Ubuntu in order to install 32 bit support:
dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386
That enabled me to run apps like LinBPQ and "XRLin" in Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit.? When I tried the 32 bit QtTermTCP binary it squawked about a missing qt5widgets file, so it looks like I'm missing a 32 bit qt5 library.

What did work was to download the 64 bit binary from here:

It's version 0.39, but it works.? So if a new binary of the latest version could be posted, that would be great.? :-)

73,
Lee K5DAT
Re: Cannot make QtTermTCP executable

 

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Lee,

Can you try this? It works on the system I built it on? (64 bit Debian 4.19 using? Qt version 5.11.3) but I don't have any other 64 bit systems to test with.



73,
John

On 09/02/2021 23:38, K5DAT wrote:



On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:11 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
Just FYI, I was able to install?ia32-libs on a new image of Ubuntu 20.04 last week (for a similar reason), and it looks like the LM deb for?ia32-libs available in the repos is fairly recent.

That might solve your problem.




Fyi in Ubuntu 20.04 I was able to follow the same instructions for older versions of Ubuntu in order to install 32 bit support:
dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386
That enabled me to run apps like LinBPQ and "XRLin" in Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit.? When I tried the 32 bit QtTermTCP binary it squawked about a missing qt5widgets file, so it looks like I'm missing a 32 bit qt5 library.

What did work was to download the 64 bit binary from here:

It's version 0.39, but it works.? So if a new binary of the latest version could be posted, that would be great.? :-)

73,
Lee K5DAT
Re: Cannot make QtTermTCP executable

 

Lee;
The new QtTermTCP64 works great!
Thanks
Roger, N1XP
Re: New Beta versions

 

We have run into issues with the VARA TNC restarting after a failed connect attempt.

One of our SYSOPS reported getting strange errors at random when attempting connects to weak BBS's. His TNC restarted every time there was a failed connection. He has PAUSE 5 after his else and would get the errors that locked up the system during his connection script.

I did not have the restart option check so I have not had any problems. I checked it here to see what would happen. With my PAUSE after the ELSE set to 4, it would skip over the next channel with a TNC not ready ERROR then proceed to the next channel.

It appears the VARA TNC takes a bit of time to reset once restarted.

If you need the VARA TNC to restart, I recommend sufficient time in the PAUSE command after the ELSE before the next ATTACH to let the VARA TNC to completely settle down.

David Webb
AFI2M/AFA2HV NJ
22nd AFMARS Trans-Global Communications Digital Operations Squadron Commander
(22AFMTGCDOSC)

On 2/6/2021 3:48 AM, John G8BPQ wrote:
Problems were found with VARA not always allowing reconnects? after a lan failure, particularly when the TNC and BPQ are on separate hosts, so the code now always restarts the TNC before trying to connect to it.

73,
John
Re: QTtermTCP Incoming Connects only

 

I did not know about EasyTerm before this thread, so the problem was solved during this discussion.

-Chris KQ6UP?

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:45 AM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
I don't use Direwolf, but it works ok with SoundModem and I'd expect the
interface to be the same.

But if you prefer Easyterm anyway, what's your problem?

73,
John

On 09/02/2021 03:36, Christopher Maness wrote:
> I did that, and it didn't work.? It works with EasyTerm, and I like
> that app better because it has a mailbox.
>
> Chris KQ6UP
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:39 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
>> It sounds like you have TermTCP set up correctly for Direwolf as an AGW host.
>>
>> To initiate a connect:
>> 1. Click the Connect menu
>> 2. Click on AGW connect.
>> 3. Enter a call in the Call To box
>> 4. Under Radio Ports, select (highlight) Port1 first soundcard mono (or whatever is there for your direwolf host)
>> 5. Click OK
>>
>> if you don't select the radio port, nothing will happen, which sounds like the problem you ran into.
>>
>
>
>
>
Re: MH no showing correct date and time #mh

 

John -

Many thanks
I finally got a dead Brain Cell to turn back on
and I understand where I was going south!
THanks for a great product!
Thanks for what you do for Ham Radio!

Gordon
WA5GM

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 3:07 AM John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
MH shows the elapsed time since the last packet. MHU and MHL show the last heard time in UTC or Local time.

73,
John

On 09/02/2021 22:46, Gordon Martin wrote:
All -

I cannot seem to get the date and time to readout correct time and date.
This is when you do MH3 or MH2 or MH 4 or any? port.
Any pointers?

Gordon



--
Gordon C Martin
AKA
Ham Operator
WA5GM
Re: MH no showing correct date and time #mh

 

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MH shows the elapsed time since the last packet. MHU and MHL show the last heard time in UTC or Local time.

73,
John

On 09/02/2021 22:46, Gordon Martin wrote:

All -

I cannot seem to get the date and time to readout correct time and date.
This is when you do MH3 or MH2 or MH 4 or any? port.
Any pointers?

Gordon

Re: QTtermTCP Incoming Connects only

 

I don't use Direwolf, but it works ok with SoundModem and I'd expect the interface to be the same.

But if you prefer Easyterm anyway, what's your problem?

73,
John

On 09/02/2021 03:36, Christopher Maness wrote:
I did that, and it didn't work. It works with EasyTerm, and I like
that app better because it has a mailbox.

Chris KQ6UP

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:39 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
It sounds like you have TermTCP set up correctly for Direwolf as an AGW host.

To initiate a connect:
1. Click the Connect menu
2. Click on AGW connect.
3. Enter a call in the Call To box
4. Under Radio Ports, select (highlight) Port1 first soundcard mono (or whatever is there for your direwolf host)
5. Click OK

if you don't select the radio port, nothing will happen, which sounds like the problem you ran into.
Re: Problems with New Install of RMS Gateway using linbpq

 

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There are a couple of possible problems here. It may just be the way you've pasted your bpq32.cfg into the email, but you show two Telnet ports, and your APPLICATION line has ^M on the end.

?APPLICATION 1,RMS,C 1 CMS,KC5QOC-10^M

73,
John


On 09/02/2021 08:34, John H Mocho wrote:

I recently tried to reinstall an RMS gateway on a raspberry pi using linbpq
The hardware worked fine. I installed the latest version if Raspbin on a new SD card
I followed the same steps i had used before to get libbpq up and running.
I logged in via the web interface on a remote PC and was able to get to CMS ad find I had no messages.
The telnet part worked fine.
The I added the TNC-PI port by copying it from the instructions vi cut and paste so no errors there.
I made the necessary edits to the WL2KREPORT for callsign and grid square.

I the attempted to initiate an RMS Express session. It connects and just sits there,
I disconnected the RMS Express session and went into my easyterm session and connected to the site.

Like this:

*** Connected to station KC5QOC-10 2/9/2021 1:18:22 AM

Upon entering the ? to get a list of commands I see this:

:>?
KC5QOC} RMS CONNECT BYE INFO NODES PORTS ROUTES USERS MHEARD

So I tried the RMS command

:>RMS
Trying ec2-52-205-99-163.compute-1.amazonaws.com
*** KC5QOC-3 Connected to CMS
[WL2K-5.0-B2FWIHJM$]
;PQ: 84113130
CMS via KC5QOC >
:>bye
Disconnecting...

Worked as expected.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I am doing wrong?

Here is my bpq32.cfg with the passwords changed:
; Basic RMS configuration
SIMPLE ; This set a whole load of paramters to reasonable defaults
LOCATOR=DM65QD ; Set to your Grid Square to send reports to the BPQ32 Node Map system
NODECALL=KC5QOC
INFOMSG:
KC5QOC's RMS Gateway
***
PORT
?ID=Telnet Server
?DRIVER=TELNET
?CONFIG
?LOGGING=1
?CMS=1 ; Enable CMS Gateway
***^
PORT
?ID=Telnet Server
?DRIVER=TELNET
?CONFIG
?LOGGING=1
?CMS=1 ; Enable CMS Gateway
?CMSCALL=KC5QOC ; CMS Gateway Call for Secure CMS Access(normally same as NODECALL)
?CMSPASS=PASSWD ; Secure CMS Password
?HTTPPORT=8080 ; Port used for Web Management
?TCPPORT=8010 ; Port for Telnet Access
?FBBPORT=8011 ; Not required, but allows monitoring using BPQTermTCP
?MAXSESSIONS=10
?CloseOnDisconnect=1 ; Close Telent Session when Node disconnects
?USER=kc5qoc,PASSWD,KC5QOC,"",SYSOP
?ENDPORT
?; Add Radio Port(s) Here
PORT
?ID=1200 Baud 145.010
?TYPE=ASYNC
?PROTOCOL=KISS
?CHANNEL=A
?COMPORT=/dev/serial0
?SPEED=19200 ; Must by 19200 for TNC-Pi
?MAXFRAME=4
?FRACK=8000
?RESPTIME=1500
?RETRIES=10
?PACLEN=128
?KISSOPTIONS=PITNC,NOPARAMS
?WL2KREPORT PUBLIC, , 8778, KC5QOC-10, DM65QD, 00-23, 145010000, PKT1200, 10, 20, 5, 0
ENDPORT

?APPLICATION 1,RMS,C 1 CMS,KC5QOC-10^M
; EOF
Re: Cannot make QtTermTCP executable - Continued

Richard Hendricks
 

It appears that none of your permissions are showing executable.? I use Midnight Commander to do this.
First, install Midnight Commander:? apt install mc
change to the subdir you have QtTermTCP in using cd command.
launch mc
highlight QtTermTCP, enter F9 to activate the upper menu.
Use arrow keys to navigate to "File"
Drop down menu to "Chmod" and hit enter.
In the Chmod Command screen, scroll down and tap space bar on all "execute" levels.
(Execute/Search by Owner, Execute/Search by Group, and Execute/Search by others)
Check permissions on right side of Chmod Command screen, should be:? 100755
Drop down to "Save".
QtTermTCP should now show with an asterisk * on the left of the filename.
Press f10 to exit mc.
Try to launch QtTermTCP

Should fix it.

73 - Rick
KE0GB
MH no showing correct date and time #mh

 

All -

I cannot seem to get the date and time to readout correct time and date.
This is when you do MH3 or MH2 or MH 4 or any? port.
Any pointers?

Gordon
Re: Cannot make QtTermTCP executable

 



On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:11 PM Jeff, NC6J <nc6j@...> wrote:
Just FYI, I was able to install?ia32-libs on a new image of Ubuntu 20.04 last week (for a similar reason), and it looks like the LM deb for?ia32-libs available in the repos is fairly recent.

That might solve your problem.




Fyi in Ubuntu 20.04 I was able to follow the same instructions for older versions of Ubuntu in order to install 32 bit support:
dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386
That enabled me to run apps like LinBPQ and "XRLin" in Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit.? When I tried the 32 bit QtTermTCP binary it squawked about a missing qt5widgets file, so it looks like I'm missing a 32 bit qt5 library.

What did work was to download the 64 bit binary from here:

It's version 0.39, but it works.? So if a new binary of the latest version could be posted, that would be great.? :-)

73,
Lee K5DAT
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