Well i wanted add some routes to my AXIP route and the new ones do not work. Nothing shows up in my AXIP port resolver or the MHeard window. The person I am mapped to sees me in his port resolver abut that is all. I currently has three people mapped but have not been able to add anyone else so far. Any ideas?

Joey
N4QMI

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The most likely is a problem with your AXIP port config. Do you get any error messages in the console window when you start BPQ?

If not, if you send me the AXIP bit of your bpq2.cfg I'll check it out.

73,
John

On 7/14/22 00:44, Joey N4QMI wrote:

Nothing shows up in my AXIP port resolver

All:

What is an 'AXIP port resolver' ?

3s, Chuck

Chuck:

hidden command: AXR(esolver) <port>

Gives list of maps configured.

73s
Red

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 09:44 PM, Joey N4QMI wrote:

Well i wanted add some routes to my AXIP route and the new ones do not work. Nothing shows up in my AXIP port resolver or the MHeard window. The person I am mapped to sees me in his port resolver abut that is all. I currently has three people mapped but have not been able to add anyone else so far. Any ideas?

Joey
N4QMI

I hope you asked permissions before adding maps to those as they must often be reciprocal for them to work. If its a bunch of copy pasted maps from somewhere this is not the way to go about linking. Feel free to drop me a line: ?password to the page is “matrix”

73
de Red

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The resolver converts host names to pi addreses. Can be viewed in the Windows GUI or via the node command AXR




axr 1
BPQ:G8BPQ-2} AXIP Resolver info for Port 1
GM8BPQ-11? = 192.168.1.199 0 = 192.168.1.199
GM8BPQ-7?? = 192.168.1.35 10093 = 192.168.1.35 B
AE5E-14??? = DXSPOTS.COM 10093 = 216.172.112.208 B C
G8BPQ-9??? = 192.168.1.44 10092 = 192.168.1.44 B
N9PMO-2??? = n9pmo.no-ip.org 10093 = 70.94.252.87 B
N9LYA????? = w9bbs.no-ip.org 10093 = 63.142.97.107 B

73,
John

On 7/14/22 06:33, John G8BPQ wrote:

The resolver converts host names to pi addreses. Can be viewed in the Windows GUI or via the node command AXR
<snip>

73,
John


On 14/07/2022 10:54, Chuck Gelm wrote:

On 7/14/22 00:44, Joey N4QMI wrote:

Nothing shows up in my AXIP port resolver

All:

What is an 'AXIP port resolver' ?

3s, Chuck

Super cool!
Works fine in (pi)linbpq.
Thanks.

Joey, according to my info your node has been offline for the last 7 hours. Are you sure it is starting? Look for network issues and error messages and get the node back online first.

Cheers,
Mark

Hey Mark, I had to restart computer. Sorry about that. Problem existed before computer locked went offline and problem is still there.

Joey

Hey John, sorry to mention that in the original message. Here is the error messages I get..

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Joey,

You need UDP before 10093

73,
John

Hey Red, I only tried a couple for testing purposes only and I removed them. I was able to add N3HYM with no problem but W4GON gives the error.

BPQAXIP - Bad config record MAP W4GON-7 10093 B

Joel (W4GON) and I are corresponding by email as well trying to find the problem.?

Joey

That was the problem John, but is weird is that N5MDT doesn't use UDP before 10094 and it works.. I tried his with UDP in it and it gave an error.. But it works so problem solved! Thanks!

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:18 PM, Joey N4QMI wrote:

That was the problem John, but is weird is that N5MDT doesn't use UDP before 10094 and it works.. I tried his with UDP in it and it gave an error.. But it works so problem solved! Thanks!

We couldn't get the UDP working. We are connected via a TCP connection.

Mark,
N5MDT

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:06 AM, Joey N4QMI wrote:

Hey Red, I only tried a couple for testing purposes only and I removed them. I was able to add N3HYM with no problem but W4GON gives the error.

BPQAXIP - Bad config record MAP W4GON-7 10093 B

Joel (W4GON) and I are corresponding by email as well trying to find the problem.?

Joey

Hi Joey
No worries, yeah some nodes do autoaddmap - I have a backup node that provides that, if you’d like to link up with mine I’ve got all the info posted here:

?password is ‘matrix’ (without quotes).

Glad to hear you got the UDP port info sorted with John, its easy to miss!

73
Red

Hey Red,
I got linked to you from your info. Here is mine:

N4QMI-7 N4QMI.DDNS.NET UDP 10093 B

73
Joey

Joey, looks like your node table is full which may also be exacerbating the problem linking.
Recommended action is to Increase the main MINQUAL= to something around 150 to start with to take out the multi-hop nodes.
You can use the MINQUAL console command to gradually back MINQUAL down to a point where you only get 200 nodes and the rest out of 500 as free slots.

I deleted the previous message from the list as I believe the remaining link issues are from higher interval broadcasters out-competing my own thus knocking my route out of Joey’s table because its full. Fixable with below:

Joey,

You have a nodes list of >900

Remember that a sysop chooses his own alias.? With 900+ in the nodes list it is possible to have conflicts.? I'm also wondering if it is detrimental to performance.

I like to have a node table that is approximately 5 * (number of forwarding partners)?? Call me crazy but just don't see any reason to have every node in the world listed in my node table.

But that's just me...

Mark

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 05:37 PM, Mark Taylor wrote:

Joey,

You have a nodes list of >900

Remember that a sysop chooses his own alias.? With 900+ in the nodes list it is possible to have conflicts.? I'm also wondering if it is detrimental to performance.

I like to have a node table that is approximately 5 * (number of forwarding partners)?? Call me crazy but just don't see any reason to have every node in the world listed in my node table.

But that's just me...

Mark

You’re not crazy Mark, if you’re seeing > 900 nodes now that means the node limit was raised from 500 from earlier yesterday, this isn’t as you might agree- the way.

For the benefit of all who may be reading-

MINQUAL= ?(above the ports config in the top segment of BPQ config) is the tuning parameter that Joey can tweak, if the AXIP port’s QUALITY is set to 192 for stations heard on it, then a reasonable starting point is setting MINQUAL to 150 and then working downwards once every NODESINTERVAL to capture only desired nodes. Ideally, single hops rather than nodes that I have seen be more than 7 hops away (slow and often duds)
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As mentioned MINQUAL is tweakable in realtime via the sysop terminal but it won’t survive restarts so the parameter in the config file must be adjusted before each restart to save progress.

—- On a related note about parameters up there, this may be useful info that I am commonly asked about so might be useful for the list (and Joey).


Relating to a tweaked config set up for my pal VK2RZ’s node, its downloadable here:

(Its from an email exchange so excuse the “you” references etc) hi hi.

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I have set the node parameters up to the absolute maximum a BPQ node can do, adjusting these parameters higher will make them invalid or cause a malfunction should your node ever reach maximum capacity.?

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I am running ~80+ AXIP links here, and that’s not yet at maximum (128 AXIP maximum possible + up to 16 RF circuits comprised each of a pair of connections into the node). This brings the actual maximum MAXROUTES calculation to 144.?

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MAXCIRCUITS is calculated by looking at the stream capability of BPQ - it can do a max of 64 streams for applications.

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When all streams are in use, there are 128 circuits.?

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The potential maximum number of NETROM users that also create circuits is 16 (two per link, so 32 circuits). Add those together and we get 160 as the absolute MAXCIRCUITS

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Then the MAXLINKS is derived from adding the MAXCIRCUITS to the maximum possible users coming in via single AX25 connections, which is (if they’re free and not used by NETROM circuits) 32.



I hope this is correct. I got this info from John as some might probably already know my node is a stresstester (hence the silly masochistic test pilot title). Its something I do with all the software and stuff I help out with, probably much to John’s chagrin hi hi.?

If I have posted something incorrect I blame my memory, please do help me refresh it!


73
Red PE1RRR