<div dir="auto">Kelly,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As an experiment, replace that line in crontab with this one:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">* <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">* * * * start_connect('w1nr') unless connected('w1nr')</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Let's see if the issue goes away while I do some experiments locally.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">73, Steve - AA4U</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 1:41 PM Kelly Leavitt via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




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I have a cron job set up that is like this:</div>
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3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,57 * * * * start_connect('w1nr') unless connected('w1nr')<br>
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At every time in the cron job, w1nr is disconnected and re-connected. I don't recall it working like this.</div>
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As it stands now, I never have more than 2 nodes connected at any time. What is best practice?</div>
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Thanks and 73 de Kelly, KE2L</div>
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