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Re: Looking for info on installing g2_link on our repeater.
Hello Eric….saw your message on the dstar-admin group about g2_link as well. I have out of town company and have been focused on that. ? The g2_link install is a manual step-by-step install. With deprecation of CentOS 7, there may be some issues with the retrieving of some of the components. I don’t “publish” the steps because the original author wanted to keep this “closed”. ? You stated that your “users” asked for g2_link…. What repeater is this? How do they know about g2_link? Do you know what the actual configuration is? Is it G2 or G3? ? Terry ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Eric Van Norman via groups.io Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2023 12:15 AM To: [email protected]Subject: [g2-link] Looking for info on installing g2_link on our repeater. ? Long story, but our old date repeater had a controller failure so we replaced it with a new Icom repeater (dual mode). Our old admin left the state and the replacement admin has been out of ham radio. we had an interim person who replaced the repeat and noted the GatewayServer had some non-standard ports. Due to time constraints and the lack of availability to get at the repeater, he had to beg off the project. So, now it sort of falls on me since no one else in the club is stepping up. The interim person suggested we reinstall the OS and software on the computer. I was able to get the computer from the repeater from the site and set it up at home. The power supply fan was squealing so I replaced that. Now to think about reinstalling the software. I think I have some info on CentOS and Gateway 3.1 software and reviewing that. One thing our members asked for is installing g2_link for the additional reflectors. It seems that I can get some directions here on how to do that once the g3 software is installed, so just starting that ball rolling.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Eric, KF0S? -- Terry Stader - KA8SCP D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Looking for info on installing g2_link on our repeater.
Long story, but our old date repeater had a controller failure so we replaced it with a new Icom repeater (dual mode). Our old admin left the state and the replacement admin has been out of ham radio. we had an interim person who replaced the repeat and noted the GatewayServer had some non-standard ports. Due to time constraints and the lack of availability to get at the repeater, he had to beg off the project. So, now it sort of falls on me since no one else in the club is stepping up. The interim person suggested we reinstall the OS and software on the computer. I was able to get the computer from the repeater from the site and set it up at home. The power supply fan was squealing so I replaced that. Now to think about reinstalling the software. I think I have some info on CentOS and Gateway 3.1 software and reviewing that. One thing our members asked for is installing g2_link for the additional reflectors. It seems that I can get some directions here on how to do that once the g3 software is installed, so just starting that ball rolling.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Eric, KF0S?
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Thanks Bob, I got the dplus dashboard working just fine… it is the Registration link on the g2_link dashboard I am trying to update.
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Terry
Terry M Stader KA8SCP
WB1GOF Repeaters Proprietor?
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On Jun 26, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Bob Wood <wa7mxz@...> wrote:
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I just change the registration link in
/dstar/tools/dplus.conf and it fixes the page to regist.
Bob Wood, WA7MXZ, Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 26, 2023, at 9:01 AM, Terry M. Stader <ka8scp@...> wrote:
?Trying to modify the fs.html output of the Registration link to go to the REGIST Dstar.do page versus our own repeater. I see the code in g2_lh.tpl but changing it there does not seem to take me there?
Any thoughts?
Terry
Terry M Stader KA8SCP
WB1GOF Repeaters Proprietor
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
I just change the registration link in /dstar/tools/dplus.conf and it fixes the page to regist. Bob Wood, WA7MXZ, Sent from my iPhone
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On Jun 26, 2023, at 9:01 AM, Terry M. Stader <ka8scp@...> wrote:
?Trying to modify the fs.html output of the Registration link to go to the REGIST Dstar.do page versus our own repeater. I see the code in g2_lh.tpl but changing it there does not seem to take me there?
Any thoughts?
Terry
Terry M Stader KA8SCP
WB1GOF Repeaters Proprietor
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D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Trying to modify the fs.html output of the Registration link to go to the REGIST Dstar.do page versus our own repeater. I see the code in g2_lh.tpl but changing it there does not seem to take me there?
Any thoughts?
Terry
Terry M Stader KA8SCP
WB1GOF Repeaters Proprietor
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D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Re: New Member with questions
? Hello Darrell, sorry to hear of the passing of the previous D-STAR admin.
Not sure if you have already let the USTRUST folks know how to reach you??
has some good information in it. I’ll email you separately regarding the installation of g2_link.
Terry
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On Mar 21, 2023, at 10:52 AM, W8DSB <w8dsb@...> wrote:
?Hello, my name is Darrell W8DSB. We recently suddenly lost our DStar admin (sk). I think I am going to be handling any or all of the day to day issue that might come up with the gateway. This repeater is the least used and one of the biggest sites we have. The issue is, we are all interconnected with XLX, DMR and YSF (using HBLINK) but the dstart stack only does real REF reflectors. I read that G2_link can help us connect this repeater stack to our XLX allowing for a wider group to use it. I see from reading other post that I need to request the software link ==> w8dsb@...I assume this will do what is needed to connect our hardware via the internet to our XLX server? Will this connection be static? If so, do I have to run one for each module or just one from the controller to controller? This is a low level project for me so I plan on doing a bunch of reading and trying to get it done before next fall.
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New Member with questions
Hello, my name is Darrell W8DSB. We recently suddenly lost our DStar admin (sk). I think I am going to be handling any or all of the day to day issue that might come up with the gateway. This repeater is the least used and one of the biggest sites we have. The issue is, we are all interconnected with XLX, DMR and YSF (using HBLINK) but the dstart stack only does real REF reflectors. I read that G2_link can help us connect this repeater stack to our XLX allowing for a wider group to use it. I see from reading other post that I need to request the software link ==> w8dsb@...I assume this will do what is needed to connect our hardware via the internet to our XLX server? Will this connection be static? If so, do I have to run one for each module or just one from the controller to controller? This is a low level project for me so I plan on doing a bunch of reading and trying to get it done before next fall.
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Re: g2-link valid users input file
Good morning Rich, ? On my g2_link system, there is a cron job that runs every morning at 2AM where the gwys.txt as well as the valid_users.txt files are updated. ? Here they are: ============================= [root@wb1gof my_scripts]# cat /etc/cron.d/update_gwys 5 2 * * * root /root/my_scripts/get_gwy_list.sh > /var/log/get_gwy_list.log 2>&1 ============================= [root@wb1gof my_scripts]# cat? get_gwy_list.sh #/bin/bash /root/my_scripts/create_active_users.sh cd /root/g2_link /bin/cp /root/g2_link/gwys.txt /root/g2_link/gwys.txt.bak /bin/rm -rf /root/g2_link/gwys.txt wget if [ -f /root/g2_link/gwys.txt ] then /usr/bin/nc -u -w 1 127.0.0.1 30003 <<EOF rfr EOF else /bin/mv /root/g2_link/gwys.txt.bak /root/g2_link/gwys.txt fi exit 0 ============================= [root@wb1gof my_scripts]# cat /root/my_scripts/create_active_users.sh /usr/bin/psql -d dstar_global -f /root/my_scripts/create_active_users.sql -U postgres cp /tmp/valid_users.txt /root/g2_link/valid_users.txt ============================= ? Hope this answers your question? ? Terry ? ?
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From: Rich Painter <painterengr@...> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 1:14 AM To: Terry M. Stader - KA8SCP <ka8scp@...> Subject: g2-link valid users input file ? I have been running the g2-link linker for some time but one of its input file is the valid users file mine uses this in the config VALID_CALLSIGNS=[/root/freestar/g2-link/valid_users.txt] the file exists but I cant find any process that is updating this file! I have a daily update for the gwys file and can verify that it is working right and up to date. How do I get daily updates for the valid users?
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-- Terry Stader - KA8SCP D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Re: Gateway Computer Crash
is the dsipsvd program and or its dir gone? or is this just an entry in the startup for the system. the latter is easy to fix. rich
I don’t have an answer, but after you get dsipsvd running, I think the following still applies: ? From: D-STAR_Admins@... <D-STAR_Admins@...>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 2:10 PM
To: D-STAR_Admins@...
Subject: [D-STAR_Admins] Restoring D-STAR registration page after Yum Updates Hello, Yum updates that involve Tomcat replace a web configuration file that needs to be restore after you do the updates. After running yum -y update, run the following commands to restore the web page: ?? cd /opt/products/dstar
?? tar -xvf dstar_cgi.tar D-STAR/WEB-INF/web.xml Brian NJ6N ? ? Last Thursday the NT4MC DSTAR gateway computer was interrupted during an update using yum.? I have been able to restore services EXCEPT for dsipsvd. Is there a way to restore the dsipsvd functionality other than a total rebuild? Thanks, Jimmy NQ4U?
-- Richard A. Painter, P.E. Retired
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Re: Gateway Computer Crash
I don’t have an answer, but after you get dsipsvd running, I think the following still applies: ?
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From: D-STAR_Admins@... <D-STAR_Admins@...>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 2:10 PM
To: D-STAR_Admins@...
Subject: [D-STAR_Admins] Restoring D-STAR registration page after Yum Updates Hello, Yum updates that involve Tomcat replace a web configuration file that needs to be restore after you do the updates. After running yum -y update, run the following commands to restore the web page: ?? cd /opt/products/dstar
?? tar -xvf dstar_cgi.tar D-STAR/WEB-INF/web.xml Brian NJ6N ? ? Last Thursday the NT4MC DSTAR gateway computer was interrupted during an update using yum.? I have been able to restore services EXCEPT for dsipsvd. Is there a way to restore the dsipsvd functionality other than a total rebuild? Thanks, Jimmy NQ4U?
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Last Thursday the NT4MC DSTAR gateway computer was interrupted during an update using yum.?
I have been able to restore services EXCEPT for dsipsvd.
Is there a way to restore the dsipsvd functionality other than a total rebuild?
Thanks,
Jimmy NQ4U
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Re: XLX reflectors - X shell script option
While messaging with another D-STAR admin, about the coexistence of dplus and g2_link and how it used to be with a single command structure. Oh well. It did give me an idea.... dplus supports using 0-9 and A-Z in the 7th position and X in the 8th spot to execute a shell script. So maybe we can make it easier for users to use dplus to change to an XRF/DCS reflector?
I created a test script, exec-U.sh in the /dstar/scripts directory, made it executable with the chmod +x command:
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#!/bin/bash
# script to automatically connect
# A port connect to DCS351D using the g2_link tool
# disconnect first
/usr/bin/nc -u -w 1 10.0.0.2 30003 <<EOF
um A
EOF
#
sleep 3
# disconnect dplus
echo "?????? U" >/dstar/tmp/link-a
#
sleep 3
# first connect with netcat to port
# then connect to DCS351D
/usr/bin/nc -u -w 1 10.0.0.2 30003 <<EOF
lm ADCS351D
EOF
exit 0
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I then added a new entry in to the DV memory of my ID-51A with a NAME of whatever you want and then the CALL SIGN:______UX (6 spaces, the U and then an X)
Transmitted to the repeater:
==> dplus.log <==
User update (KA8SCP? ) rpt (WB1GOF C) 2022/09/22 12:51:16.303
Remote client forward start streamid 3932? 2022/09/22 12:51:16.312
?? rpt2 (WB1GOF G) rpt1 (WB1GOF C) urcall (????? UX) mycall (KA8SCP? /ID51)
Exec start streamid 3932? 2022/09/22 12:51:16.312
?? rpt2 (WB1GOF G) rpt1 (WB1GOF C) urcall (????? UX) mycall (KA8SCP? /ID51)
?? user message (Terry - Westford MA ) mycall (KA8SCP? ) streamid 3932
Stream end?? streamid 3932 cnt 45 missed 0 elapsed 00:01? 2022/09/22 12:51:17.165
exec file /dstar/scripts/exec-U.sh submitted
==> g2_link.log <==
092222 at 12:51:17:Received command [um A] from [10.0.0.2]
092222 at 12:51:17:cmd=[um], parameter=[A]
092222 at 12:51:17:Unlinking from [DCS351? ] mod D
092222 at 12:51:20:sending File:[/root/g2_link/unlinked.dat], mod:[A], RADIO_ID=[UNLINKED??????????? ]
==> dplus.log <==
Reading link file /dstar/tmp/link-a for 'A' streamid 2e4d? 2022/09/22 12:51:20.464
Reflector/Gateway unlink request streamid 2e4d? 2022/09/22 12:51:20.464
?? rpt2 (WB1GOF G) rpt1 (WB1GOF A) urcall (?????? U) mycall (WB1GOF? /??? )
playfile /dstar/dv/alreadyunlinked.dvtool to A
Adding message >Not Linked????????? < to /dstar/tmp/play-a.dvmsg
playfile mod 0 tvs/u 1663865481/465050 tvps/u 0/699660 timediff 1713137214
Reading file /dstar/tmp/play-a.dvtool to 'A' streamid 2b71? 2022/09/22 12:51:21.465
Read msg file for playback
?? rpt2 (WB1GOF A) rpt1 (WB1GOF G) urcall (CQCQCQ? ) mycall (WB1GOF? /RPTR)
Finished reading file /dstar/tmp/play-a.dvtool to 'A' streamid 2b71? 2022/09/22 12:51:21.465
Play file recall to module A stream 2b71
==> g2_link.log <==
092222 at 12:51:21:finished sending File to mod:[A]
092222 at 12:51:23:Received command [lm ADCS351D] from [10.0.0.2]
092222 at 12:51:23:cmd=[lm], parameter=[ADCS351D]
092222 at 12:51:23:sending link request from mod A to link with: [DCS351? ] mod D [45.33.127.97]
==> dplus.log <==
OK
==> g2_link.log <==
092222 at 12:51:23:Connected from: DCS351
092222 at 12:51:26:sending File:[/root/g2_link/linked.dat], mod:[A], RADIO_ID=[LINKED DCS351 D???? ]
092222 at 12:51:27:finished sending File to mod:[A]
================================================
Still working on trying to figure out why an XLX reflector request times out.
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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right on Jim! At one time we could link to REF with g2-link but that got shut off by the dplus guy. Not very neighborly. My thought on the g2-link and dplus listening to same commands... the unlink could be processed by BOTH. the one who was not actually linked would just ignore it or error it out and move on. what happens when dplus gets an unlink when not linked??? likely the same.
CMRG has used g2-link for a long time on our 3 systems. We also have one of our D-STAR running both dpllus and g2-link.
regards rich CMRG D-STAR Admin
Terry,? Good idea setting up this ?group. ? Several years ago, I helped a friend, Larry WW6USA to set up an ICOM repeater (W6DHS) in Alamagordo, New Mexico.? It was running G2 with the DPlus add-on as well as the ircDDB (callsign routing enhancer) add-on.? I also installed g2_link.? I set up a website for the repeater and did my best to explain how to program radios to issue RF link commands to REF reflectors using the DPlus commands, as well as DCS and XRF linking using g2_link commands.? ? It’s been my experience that some users want simple things set up for them so they can focus on QSOs and just communicating.? Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it means if those people struggle with DPlus link commands, they will also struggle with g2_link commands.? Others who are more technical wonks will have no trouble programming their radios to easily link using g2_link.? ? In any case, due to various factors, W6DHS repeater is currently off the air, but I suspect Larry will get it going again. ? My own involvement with gateways has been to be an Admin on the W6CX Digital Voice Gateway in Concord, California.? The club started out with ICOM gear with the normal add-ons.? ?When we upgraded to ICOM’s G3 software I worked with Adrian VK4TUX to allow RF users to send a command to switch between ICOM’s G3 software and G4KLX’s DStarRepeater & ircDDBGateway software.? The latter uses the same link commands in DPlus format to link to all 4 reflector types.? It turned out users preferred that over ICOM’s native G3 software so the repeater ran G4KLX most of the time. ? In 2021 we replaced the ICOM gear with a pair of Motorola CDM1250s and a Pi 3B+ running Pi-Star.? We’ve enabled D-STAR, of course, but also DMR and C4FM.? I am looking forward to enabling M17 as soon as M17 radios appear on the market, which I suspect will be in a couple of years.? ? I have never cared for gateway software disputes, at least the kind we see between DPlus and g2_link and other 3rd party software.? I also don’t understand why some software is allowed to successfully link to REF reflectors and some is not.? I think of all of us in ham digital voice are part of a community and we should work with each other instead of putting up roadblocks.?
In fact, I wonder if it might be a good idea to again attempt to work with the DPlus author to find a solution so add-ins like g2_link could use the same RF command syntax.? Technically, it should be possible.? They would both monitor RX traffic looking for a command in the UR field – if DPlus saw something like UR=REF001CL (please link to REF001C), then DPlus would do the work and g2_link would ignore the command.? And if DPlus saw UR=XRF002CL, it could ignore the command since it does not care about XRF, DCS etc. and g2_link could do the work.? Yes, there would need to be a way to unlink and clear out an existing connection that might have been set up by the other add-in, but that does not seem difficult to me.? ?I really don’t see how this scenario would hurt either system, at all.?
? But, I am just one person…. ? ??? Jim – K6JM ??? W6CX-DV Admin ??? Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club, Concord, CA ? ? We have a number of new members in the last 2 days. There is not much message traffic, so make sure you read thru the old message, check out the file section and also the wiki.
For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you are running it on?
I saw a link to a good explanation of the reflector types and the various gateway software packages on how they access the reflectors. Take a look at?
Terry
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D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
-- Richard A. Painter, P.E. Retired
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Terry,? Good idea setting up this ?group. ? Several years ago, I helped a friend, Larry WW6USA to set up an ICOM repeater (W6DHS) in Alamagordo, New Mexico.? It was running G2 with the DPlus add-on as well as the ircDDB (callsign routing enhancer) add-on.? I also installed g2_link. ?I set up a website for the repeater and did my best to explain how to program radios to issue RF link commands to REF reflectors using the DPlus commands, as well as DCS and XRF linking using g2_link commands.? ? It’s been my experience that some users want simple things set up for them so they can focus on QSOs and just communicating.? Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it means if those people struggle with DPlus link commands, they will also struggle with g2_link commands.? Others who are more technical wonks will have no trouble programming their radios to easily link using g2_link.? ? In any case, due to various factors, W6DHS repeater is currently off the air, but I suspect Larry will get it going again. ? My own involvement with gateways has been to be an Admin on the W6CX Digital Voice Gateway in Concord, California.? The club started out with ICOM gear with the normal add-ons.? ?When we upgraded to ICOM’s G3 software I worked with Adrian VK4TUX to allow RF users to send a command to switch between ICOM’s G3 software and G4KLX’s DStarRepeater & ircDDBGateway software.? The latter uses the same link commands in DPlus format to link to all 4 reflector types.? It turned out users preferred that over ICOM’s native G3 software so the repeater ran G4KLX most of the time. ? In 2021 we replaced the ICOM gear with a pair of Motorola CDM1250s and a Pi 3B+ running Pi-Star.? We’ve enabled D-STAR, of course, but also DMR and C4FM.? I am looking forward to enabling M17 as soon as M17 radios appear on the market, which I suspect will be in a couple of years.? ? I have never cared for gateway software disputes, at least the kind we see between DPlus and g2_link and other 3rd party software.? I also don’t understand why some software is allowed to successfully link to REF reflectors and some is not.? I think of all of us in ham digital voice are part of a community and we should work with each other instead of putting up roadblocks.?
In fact, I wonder if it might be a good idea to again attempt to work with the DPlus author to find a solution so add-ins like g2_link could use the same RF command syntax.? Technically, it should be possible.? They would both monitor RX traffic looking for a command in the UR field – if DPlus saw something like UR=REF001CL (please link to REF001C), then DPlus would do the work and g2_link would ignore the command.? And if DPlus saw UR=XRF002CL, it could ignore the command since it does not care about XRF, DCS etc. and g2_link could do the work. ?Yes, there would need to be a way to unlink and clear out an existing connection that might have been set up by the other add-in, but that does not seem difficult to me.? ?I really don’t see how this scenario would hurt either system, at all.?
? But, I am just one person…. ? ??? Jim – K6JM ??? W6CX-DV Admin ??? Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club, Concord, CA ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Terry M. Stader Sent: Friday, September 9, 2022 7:15 AM To: [email protected]Subject: [g2-link] Welcome new member ? We have a number of new members in the last 2 days. There is not much message traffic, so make sure you read thru the old message, check out the file section and also the wiki.
For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you are running it on?
I saw a link to a good explanation of the reflector types and the various gateway software packages on how they access the reflectors. Take a look at?
Terry
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Hello again... Quite often I get asked if we can connect to XLX reflectors with our repeater. Interesting enough, the answer appears to be probably!? I wrote a little script called "xlx351d-a-start.sh":
#!/bin/bash
# script to automatically connect
# A port to XLX351D using the g2_link tool
# disconnect first
/usr/bin/nc -u -w 1 10.0.0.2 30003 <<EOF
um A
EOF
#
sleep 3
# disconnect dplus
echo "? ? ? ?U" >/dstar/tmp/link-a
#
sleep 3
# first connect with netcat to port
# then connect to XLX351D
/usr/bin/nc -u -w 1 10.0.0.2 30003 <<EOF
lm AXLX351D
EOF
exit 0
======================= Made it executable and then ran it. Sure enough it connected. The gateway was registered on the XLX dashboard with the DCS protocol (that is how it is supposed to be if you look at the gwys.txt file). After a minute or so, it times out. g2_link.log file shows:
091922 at 18:24:12:Received command [um A] from [10.0.0.2]
091922 at 18:24:12:cmd=[um], parameter=[A]
091922 at 18:24:18:Received command [lm AXLX351D] from [10.0.0.2]
091922 at 18:24:18:cmd=[lm], parameter=[AXLX351D]
091922 at 18:24:18:sending link request from mod A to link with: [XLX351? ] mod D [45.33.127.97]
091922 at 18:24:18:Connected from: XLX351
091922 at 18:24:21:sending File:[/root/g2_link/linked.dat], mod:[A], RADIO_ID=[LINKED XLX351 D? ? ?]
091922 at 18:24:22:finished sending File to mod:[A]
091922 at 18:25:09:Unlinked from [XLX351? ] mod D, TIMEOUT...
091922 at 18:25:12:sending File:[/root/g2_link/unlinked.dat], mod:[A], RADIO_ID=[UNLINKED TIMEOUT? ? ]
091922 at 18:25:13:finished sending File to mod:[A]
Since the XLX connection is being made as DCS 30051 UDP connection and other DCS connections stay connected:
091922 at 18:44:30:Received command [lm ADCS351D] from [10.0.0.2]
091922 at 18:44:30:cmd=[lm], parameter=[ADCS351D]
091922 at 18:44:30:sending link request from mod A to link with: [DCS351? ] mod D [45.33.127.97]
091922 at 18:44:30:Connected from: DCS351
091922 at 18:44:33:sending File:[/root/g2_link/linked.dat], mod:[A], RADIO_ID=[LINKED DCS351 D? ? ?]
091922 at 18:44:34:finished sending File to mod:[A]
Wondering why the XLX version does not?
-- Terry Stader - KA8SCP D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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?Hello all,
Thanks for those of you that have replied. Great to hear from you and that your systems are playing mostly OK.
So, about my “home” system, WB1GOF. It has been a dextra/g2_link system for a long time. I spent a lot of time messaging with Ramesh VA3UV over the years and we’ve seen some changes. I too enjoyed the single set of over the air commands we used to enjoy until we were “cut off” on REFxxx linking. So obviously we had to make a change.
WB1GOF has an eclectic group of users. Some that are afraid to make any change to the connectivity because they make break something and they just use the system as they find it. The other group will try new connections but only use the dplus commands and almost never any of the g2_link commands.
It has both B and C modules connected. B was the original and is by default connected to REF050C. The C side I used to connect to XRFs but since I’ve created an XLX reflector that cross connects REF038D to the XLX/XRF as well as transcoded to DMR/Fusion now, it is mostly parked there.
Ramesh and I had created the much bigger Canadian CanNet environment for the Friday night nets. That group of reflectors (XLX and XRF) with a bunch of gateways homes there.
Other g2_link systems I manage are the KS1R and AF2A systems and on both of those systems the users have grown to understand how the differences between dplus and g2_link commands. LU3AOC in Buenos Aries is also a g2_link system I set up and they too connect to the XLX/XRF/DCS world.
I am currently working on converting WL7CWI to a g2_link system now. So we are still actively deploying them.
73 for now…
Terry
Terry M Stader KA8SCP
WB1GOF Repeaters/D-STAR Admin
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On Sep 9, 2022, at 10:15 AM, Terry M. Stader <ka8scp@...> wrote:
For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you are running it on?
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Hi Everybody,
I've been running
g2_link on the VK5REX repeater/gateway here in Port Lincoln
South Australia for a long long time now.
I fondly remember the
early days when g2_link could also handle dplus connections as
well as Dextra and DCS. It was very handy having unified
link/unlink commands across the three linking protocols. As a
plus g2_link would only send received transmissions through to
the connected reflector/system if the operator had "CQCQCQ? " in
the URcall field. This allowed you to unlink from a dplus
reflector without interrupting an existing QSO.
73
Michael.
VK5LN/VK5ZEA
On 9/09/2022 23:45, Terry M. Stader
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We have a number of new members in the last 2 days. There is not
much message traffic, so make sure you read thru the old message,
check out the file section and also the wiki.
For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running
g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you
are running it on?
I saw a link to a good explanation of the reflector types and the
various gateway software packages on how they access the
reflectors. Take a look at?
Terry
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Hi Terry, ? “For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you are running it on?” I didn’t see much of a response to this email so I thought I would jump in.?? We have been running g2_link on our repeater, , here in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada for a little while now.? It’s great! ? Rob ,? VY1RG ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Terry M. Stader
Sent: September 9, 2022 7:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [g2-link] Welcome new member? We have a number of new members in the last 2 days. There is not much message traffic, so make sure you read thru the old message, check out the file section and also the wiki.
For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you are running it on?
I saw a link to a good explanation of the reflector types and the various gateway software packages on how they access the reflectors. Take a look at?
Terry
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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G'day Terry, Ben,
I joined up a few months ago to learn about D-Star admin bits.? I'm helping out to admin an old G2 system (VK6RWN) with a full icom stack (RP2C plus 2m, 70cms and 23cms but 23cms if offline at the moment waiting on an antenna).?
Managed to get ircddb added to it but somehow in the process upset DSM -
I do have access to G3 software but the repeater location and the lack of an upgrade path from CentOS5 means a G3 upgrade is a "forklift change" which is difficult at this time.
Still trying to get hold of a radio that supports D-Star.? But living in Perth, Western Australia .... the more esoteric the item, the longer the wait!
Best regards,
Adam VK6XR
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Hi,
g2_link is currently installed on the VK5RWN
D-Star Icom repeater (23cm is currently turned off due to no
demand and as a power saving measure) stack here in Adelaide,
the Capitol City of the State of South Australia, Australia.
- PF95IE
- ?????????????
(you may need to allow for a security exception to access the
VK5RWN dash board.)
There is only a small group of D-Star users here in Adelaide,
though a number of users also use hot spots and log into VK5RWN C
as a de-facto reflector to keep communications local.
Over a 14 day period we would have somewhere around 18 - 22
unique call signs logged through VK5RWN.
We also have a number of DX stations who also log into VK5RWN C
and this some times comes as a surprise, though time differences
can be problematic for active QSO's.
Cheers,
73, Ben VK5BB
VK5RWN D-Star Administrator.
On 9/09/2022 23:45, Terry M. Stader
wrote:
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We have a number of new members in the last 2 days. There is not
much message traffic, so make sure you read thru the old message,
check out the file section and also the wiki.
For those of you that have been here awhile, are you still running
g2_link? If so, maybe you can identify the gateway/repeater you
are running it on?
I saw a link to a good explanation of the reflector types and the
various gateway software packages on how they access the
reflectors. Take a look at?
Terry
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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
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Terry M. Stader
Rich Painter
Ben VK5BB