Allstar | Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network

Allstar | Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network

Has anyone attempted to run their Allstar nodes behind the AREDN network and make it work? Not have any luck with it registering even with ports forwarding set up in IPtables.

Reply:  Should be plug and play just like in any other network, don't need to open ports for the Allstar node to register. If you need inbound connections(from the internet) to your Allstar node then you need to Port forward UDP 4569 in two places, on your home network router and on the AREDN node connected to your home network. Reserve local IP for Allstar node under DHCP tab.

If you are attempting to connect your Allstar nodes to each other on the same AREDN LAN, then you need to modify the rtp.conf files and map each node to the reserved IP address. 

Refer to this document:   https://www.hamvoip.org/multi-server%20howto.pdf
This will also work for Allstar nodes on different AREDN subnets, as long as you hardcode the node number and IPs in rtp.conf

Reply: I setup several AllStar installs (HAMVOIP) which are all setup with both one public and one private node number on a Raspberry PI3B using an ethernet cable (eth0) to the LAN/router/WAN and a USB-to-Ethjernet adapater on a newly defined *eth1* which is connected into my Mesh network. I then "bridge" connect the public node to the private node on the same box and then connect that to another private node (eg, at our mtn top repeater). There are several ways to connect thru. Supermon web interface makes it real easy.

It works great for me but the eth1 setup is a bit confusing at first. Did a HT-to-local-pi-node thru to private (then over tunneled mesh connect to 750+ miles aways) and out the other end in reverse. Allows me to get to my mtn top repeater on different [mesh] paths when/if my primary part15 5.8 link is down.

Reminder: it's simply digital traffic - AllStar is simply VOIP over IP-based network connection, hard part is figuring out how to define/let HamVoip do the network connection path. (detailed instructions left off)

Have hope - it is possible and can work well depending on underlying metwork latency etc.
HTH, - Don - AA7AU

https://groups.io/g/AREDN

Reply:
One network connection from your AllStar-PI needs to be connected to your router (hopefully using MAC-defined IP-reservation) and your router setup for port forwarding 4569 (or whatever) to that IP. The *other* network connection from your AllStar-PI gets connected to a LAN port on your mesh and gets its 10.x.x.x. there from your node.

https://groups.io/g/AREDN

https://www.arednmesh.org/content/allstar