[Dxspider-support] Node disconnects every 10 minutes

[Dirk Koopman]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 04:28 +0000, Neal Campbell wrote:
> I am suffering with continual disconnects from the 2 nodes I attach
> to. It seems very cyclical, almost 10 minutes to  the second. I
> noticed our cable company working on a fiber box down the street so
> could not exclude them but I am also running a AR Cluster and its not
> seeing the disconnects at all.
> 
> Any ideas? Running on Suse 9.3 64bit. Latest CVS from dxcluster.org.

This is usually symptomatic of one side or the other not using the
correct callsign. Make *absolutely* sure that you are logging into a
node with the *exact* callsign that you are using in $mycall and also
that you are getting the *exact* callsign that you expect from the other
end.

The reason this happens is that both ends (if they are DXSpider nodes)
ping each other. If they don't get back the correct callsign, the pings
are ignored. On the third ping, that then is ignored, the node
disconnects. The default ping time is 5 minutes, therefore on the stroke
of the third ping (10mins) it disconnects.

Oh, and make sure he has you down as a node :-)

Dirk G1TLH