Ok so by suggestion by one of our users.
We have 4 Nodes and occasionally the network will go down or something glitches and the i p address changes on the nodes.
One of the techy guys said to set the i p addresses to anything lower that xxx.xxx. 0.50. Then i was told that it wont ever change if it is a i p address lower than 50. So i set 3 of them to xxx.xxx.0 38, 39, and 40. Also set i n port forwarding.....
The nodes are now down and i went to the node settings in almon3 and did a ping test on google with the low number i p address and it was fine. However doing a ping test to allstar had no reponse in our out.....
Is it possible that allstar link network will not recognize an i p address below 50?????
And i do have all 3 nodes on the same network and all have port forwarding to seperate ports. ( 4569, 4570, 4571, etc
Do your nodes show as being up on allstarlink.org? If so, you also need to change manager.conf and /etc/allmon3/allmon3.ini on each node to reflect your changes. If not, you need to look in rpt.conf and make sure there are no typos in your internal net definitions.
Are these nodes not behind your own router? Most routers will let you assign fixed IP addresses.
EDIT: I've never heard that "IP address < X.X.0.50" rule before. Do your techies work for your ISP to know this?
An Public IP address is a Public IP address. if not in the private reserved range, they are all the same.
If you are talking about addresses in the private range, well there is no general rule unless some domain controller you have inside your NAT is making it.
Why not just explain the exact issue you are having and explain the exact network situation. Because none of it is clear for any answer.
So it sounds like you are trying to assign static IP addresses to each node that is outside of your router's DHCP pool, which, presumably, starts at 192.168.1.51. This can generally be changed pretty easily on most gateways.
Have you, in fact, verified that you are using an address outside of the pool for your router's DHCP server handing out addresses?
Second, when assigning static addresses to the node, did you do this through network manager, providing IP address, gateway and DNS for each host?
Allstarlink.org isn't going to care much about your local IP address. It's the job of NAT to translate between that and the internet. To me, this sounds like possibly a DNS problem.
What do you see if you type the following from bash on one of the nodes?