[Dxspider-support] "you are connected to me" Problem

[Lee Sawkins]

Hi Dirk.

If you allowed users to bump existing connections with the same SSID, I
think that would be all that is really necessary.

Lee VE7CC


Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
> > One thing that Spider does that I don't like is that it treats all these
> > SSIDs are completely separate users.  They have to log in and resend all
> > their information.   The big problem is that the filters don't carry
> > over from one SSID to the other.  In AR Cluster the filters are carried
> > from one SSID to another, unless the SSID is over 15.  That is why you
> > occaassionally see AR Cluster users with SSIDs of -16, -17 etc.
> 
> Now this is a long standing gripe that many people have had, but I have
> several problems with doing it differently.
> 
> Firstly a callsign is treated as a unique (primary) key on a node. It
> would be *very* inconvenient for me if this was to be changed. It makes
> everything very much more complicated. There is a further, important
> issue for node operators: most parts of the world you don't have the
> (in)convenience of a completely separate callsign for the node (eg, for
> me, GB7DJK/GB7TLH for the nodes and G1TLH for me). So you have to run it
> under some version of your callsign. In order for the unique key to
> operate then you will need either to run the node with <call>-<ssid> and
> the sysop alias as <call>, or the other way around.
> 
> I also reckon that other software would get a bit confused if you appear
> as node one minute and a user the next, then keep swapping.
> 
> It could all be fixed of course, it is just a load of work and testing.
> 
> However, I will take on board your remarks about cloning user data from
> the non-ssided call onto ssided ones.
> 
> The real question is: if I allow bumping of existing users (so people
> could reconnect with the same callsign) would all this problem with
> ssids still exist to the same extent?
> 
> Dirk
> 
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