Why does my IP box keep turning yellow after about half an hour?



When it does this and I click on it, the "Enable port" checkbox is unchecked. If I check it again and then save it, the IP box turns black and stays that way for about half an hour, then turns yellow again. What's going on here?

Thanks

There's a couple of interrelated reasons:

1. Are you beaconing or I-gating through your APRS-IS connection? If you aren't sending any traffic to the backbone, it will eventually disconnect your station, i.e., you must be dead, you're not sending anything. Anything that looks like an I-gate to the backbone is expected to send traffic. Otherwise, why are you adding load to a backbone server by tying up one of its available port connections?

2. You haven't checked the "Retry connect indefinitely" checkbox on your APRS-IS port configuration to tell it to reconnect after a failure.

Ensure both of these issues are fixed, and see if you still have the problem.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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Subject: [yaac-users] IP / APRS-IS box turning yellow

Why does my IP box keep turning yellow after about half an hour?

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When it does this and I click on it, the "Enable port" checkbox is unchecked. If I check it again and then save it, the IP box turns black and stays that way for about half an hour, then turns yellow again. What's going on here?

Thanks

Thanks for the response Andrew.

I'm trying to setup a bi-directional i-gate, since everything in my area appears to be rx only. I thought it should have been beaconing via both RF and IS, but maybe at that point I hadn't gotten it setup correctly. It seems to be stable now, I've had it up and running for about 4 hours and it hasn't disconnected the IP port in that time.

Andrew, another dumb question. When the RF or IP boxes turn red briefly that mean it couldn't send (? or receive, or both?) through that channel for some reason? Is there a log somewhere that might show what that reason would be?

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Ah. That makes a lot more sense than constantly having errors. Thanks again!