[aprssig] IGate Registering for ANSRVR (Messaging failures)

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Steve Dimse via aprssig <aprssig at tapr.org>
wrote:

>
> > On Jul 16, 2016, at 3:16 AM, SARTrack Admin via aprssig <
> aprssig at tapr.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm,
> >
> > I have not looked at my SARTrack code in this area for years, but
> SARTrack will simply send all incoming data from RF to the APRS-IS network,
> after checking for duplicate packets.
> > Once a station is heard on RF in the last 30 minutes, regardless of what
> is send, SARTRack will accept any Messages directed to that station (after
> checking for Duplicates) and transmit it on RF.
> >
> > SARTrack can also be used as a fill-in Digipeater but it will display a
> big warning to the end-user on the consequences of this.
> >
> > I hope this is the right behaviour...
>
> Pretty close, ideally you should be checking for how the station was
> heard: direct, one hop, two hops, etc, and only IGate traffic to those
> within however many hops your output is configured to send outgoing
> packets. You might also raise the timeout from 30 minutes. If a station
> only beacons every 30 minutes there will be a loss of coverage for those 30
> minutes every time a packet is not heard by you. Two hours is probably
> better. Stations that leave your network still time out pretty quickly and
> there is less risk of not IGating something you should have.
>
> Steve K4HG
>

​Also IGate software needs to determine if a station heard on RF in the
last 30 minutes​ was also heard via the Internet.  If yes, then it
shouldn't gate the message to RF because that station already got the
message via the Internet.

Lee - K5DAT
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