search

wb2osz / direwolf

Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
GNU General Public License v2.0
1.55k stars 302 forks source link

INTERNAL ERROR? select_t1_value #323

Open jmkristian opened 3 years ago

jmkristian commented 3 years ago

Direwolf logs an ominous message: INTERNAL ERROR? Stream 0: select_t1_value, rc = 2, t1 remaining = -999.000, old srt = 15.000, new srt = 15.000, Extreme new t1v = 30.500 ... when attempting to connect via two digipeaters, immediately before retransmitting SABM. Excerpts from the log are in the attached file OAKND.txt.

I haven't noticed this when using one or zero digipeaters. I used Direwolf version 1.6 on Windows 8.1 Pro, with a SignaLink USB sound adapter.

Perhaps this isn't a serious issue. But it's annoying. OAKND.txt

dranch commented 3 years ago

Please send the direwolf.conf file you're using. If I was to guess, you have a misconfigured FRACK setting.

jmkristian commented 3 years ago

Here's my direwolf.conf file. I renamed this copy because github refused to upload a .conf file. direwolf.conf.txt

dranch commented 3 years ago

I don't think there is a bug here and thus this shouldn't be getting discussed in a Github issue. If you would, please close this issue, add yourself to the direwolf@groups.io email list and re-post this issue there.

Anyway.. to conclude here, I looked at your config and it seems OK though maybe non-optimal (you seem to be using the Santa Clara County's (Bay Area, CA) overly conservative TNC settings):

SLOTTIME is in tens of milliseconds (the setting here is 100ms) - OK

SLOTTIME 10

PERSIST of 63 is OK

PERSIST 63

PACLEN is in bytes at the L2 Ax.25 layer - OK

PACLEN 128

MAXFRAME of 2 is very inefficient but OK; try using 4 on good quality RF links

MAXFRAME 2

FRACK (aka T1) is in seconds - this setting is 6 seconds - OK

FRACK 6

RETRY of 8 is OK

RETRY 8

TXDELAY is in tens of milliseconds (the setting here is 400ms) - OK

TXDELAY 40

The other thing to consider is what program are you using with Direwolf? Outpost Packet Manager? If so, Outpost might be reconfiguring the Direwolf software TNC via in-line KISS parameters. Try this: start up direwolf in a terminal window and start capturing it's output. Now start Outpost and attempt a packet connection. Text will show up on the Direwolf window of what Outpost might be re-configuring. Send that output to a post on the Direwolf email list and I bet there might be something screwy going on there.

wb2osz commented 3 years ago

Thanks for reporting this. I've seen this on very rare occasions. It's a warning that an automatically adjusted parameter is outside the expected range. After the warning is printed, the value is forced back in range. I will put it thru a stress test and see if I can cause this to happen so it can be investigated.

jmkristian commented 3 years ago

I use Direwolf primarily with Outpost PMM, for emergency communication in Santa Clara County. Outpost uses the AGWPE interface, not KISS. Here's a sample log:

Dire Wolf version 1.6

Reading config file direwolf.conf
Available audio input devices for receive (*=selected):
    0: Microphone (HD Webcam C615)
    1: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High De
    2: Microphone (High Definition Aud
 *  3: Line (3- USB AUDIO  CODEC)   (channel 0)
    4: Line In (High Definition Audio
Available audio output devices for transmit (*=selected):
    0: Speakers (High Definition Audio
 *  1: Speakers (3- USB AUDIO  CODEC)   (channel 0)
    2: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High De
Channel 0: 1200 baud, AFSK 1200 & 2200 Hz, E+, 44100 sample rate.
Note: PTT not configured for channel 0. (Ignore this if using VOX.)
Ready to accept KISS TCP client application 0 on port 8100 ...
Ready to accept AGW client application 0 on port 8000 ...

Attached to AGW client application 0 ...

Ready to accept AGW client application 1 on port 8000 ...
Attempting connect to ARCMB ...
[0L 15:33:46] W6JMK>ARCMB,LPRC2,OAKND:(SABM cmd, p=1)
INTERNAL ERROR?  Stream 0: select_t1_value, rc = 2, t1 remaining = -999.000, old srt = 15.000, new srt = 15.000, Extreme new t1v = 30.500
[0L 15:34:17] W6JMK>ARCMB,LPRC2,OAKND:(SABM cmd, p=1)
jmkristian commented 3 years ago

Here's a longer, complete log, showing several connection attempts with different digipeater paths. The radio was turned off, so nothing was received. All connections were from the same client (Outpost PMM); the only difference is the digipeater paths. It seems noteworthy that only one of the three connections resulted in the ominous message. direwolf-log.txt