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New to the forums! I have a problem with an IP Site Connect setup that is driving me nuts. I have 2 sites. One site has the Master, and 1 Peer. The Peer is actually at another location, but is connected to the main site via a 5.i Ghz Microwave link. Essentially it is plugged into the same switch as the Master. Both Master and Peer are hooked into an HP 1920 switch. The switch is connected to the outside world via a 4G cellular modem. The other site is a Peer, and is sitting inside of a broadband connection. It has a static, public facing IP, as does the cell modem at main site. I have been over and over all of the IP related configurations, and cant find a flaw there. Right now the Master is sitting in a DMZ to eliminate any port forwarding issues until this is figured out. The issue is that the Peer at the end of the 5.8 link can talk to the Master just fine. The offsite Peer can talk to the Master as well. I can not get any Peer to Peer traffic. From the Master i can not see any information about the Peers that it is talking to. The Firmware on the Master and the Peer that are on the same LAN have an older firmware, but are the same. The offsite Peer has a newer problem. Am i dealing with a firmware issue? Possible a Bad Master? All repeaters are MTR3000. Anyone dealt with this symptom?
 

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Sorry for the typos guys. Using phone only today. The part where my says "The offsite Peer has a newer problem" should say that the offsite peer has a newer firmware.
 

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Have you used RDAC pointed at the master to ensure the peer is being recognized? A 2 site IPSC system is about as basic as it gets.


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Yes sir. I actually just spent several hours RDACing remotely offsite, with a helper onsite with RDAC and CPS, trying configuration changes. I have exhausted manipulating networking related changes. We added an additional Peer at the Master location, because we couldn't easily make changes to the peer at the end of the 5.8 link. Through RDAC locally, it shows the Master and Both Peers that are on the same network. Remotely from my RDAC, I can only see the master. The Master just refuses to share what it knows about the Peers with anything outside the local network. I also added another offsite peer in another city. So, 2 differnet cities can see and talk to the Master, but not the Peers inside the network, nor can the 2 offsite peers talk to each other. I'm running out of options...
 

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Just thinkling out loud here, but things you need to check on each repeater is to make sure each peer has a unique UDP port. The master UDP has to be the same in all repeaters (see Link Establishment in CPS). And also make sure each repeater has a unique Radio ID (see General Settings in CPS)

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Thanks for the reply Bob, and you N1GTL. I have checked and re-checked all of those settings. Every repeater has unique UDP port, and radio ID. All peers point to the same Master UDP port. I am really thinking this issue is pointing @ the cell modem/NAT. I think it is altering the source IP and port information in the packets, but haven't been able to confirm.

N1GLT. I looked back at your thread from 2014, and it seems that my problem is almost the inverse of the problem you were having. The solution for you was pointing the Master IP on the Master itself at the WAN IP. I really thought that was going to fix the issue, but it did not. I am grabbing the cell modem from the site today so that i can set this whole thing up on the bench and replicate the exact onsite scenario. Im going to add a dedicated router behind the cell modem, and pass the WAN IP to it, relieving the cell modem of its NAT duties and see what happens. If anyone has any further ideas, or needs more info about the setup, I'm all ears.
 

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Just thinkling out loud here, but things you need to check on each repeater is to make sure each peer has a unique UDP port. The master UDP has to be the same in all repeaters (see Link Establishment in CPS). And also make sure each repeater has a unique Radio ID (see General Settings in CPS)

Good Luck,
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Not true. I have at least 6 IPSC installs where all ports are left at 50000 and they work perfectly. Big M tech support keeps giving different answers on the topic but I can tell you with certainty they all work with the same port. You are correct in that you can use different UDP ports but it is not required. The same is not the case with Linked Capacity Plus. In that case, the ports need to be different.

Going back to RDAC, I'm not sure if you are running on open internet, private network, vlan, etc. I can tell you that when you run RDAC, you point it to the master and make sure you're using a different radio ID than any of the repeaters. You computer will talk to the master and get a list of the peer repeaters. RDAC will then try to contact each repeater individually, NOT through the master!!! The computer you are running RDAC on must be able to communicate with each peer directly on the specified UDP port. I'm guessing this is why you see both peers at the masters location but not remotely.

The issue you refer to in 2014 was an LCP system, not and IPSC.
 

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Thanks for the input guys. After another 2 days of troubleshooting this system on the bench with some port mirroring and Wireshark, the issue is clear. The $700 cellular modem that was employed does not, and will not handle NAT Loopback. The Peers local to each other learn from the Master how to contact each other. The Master doesn't know their local IP, only the WAN IP they came through. So if Peer 1 tries to contact the other local Peer 2, it sends its packets to the WAN IP. The cell modem is incapable of redirecting this traffic back into the local network. I confirmed this by running to Walmart at grabbing a $35 Netgear WNR2000 that I know supports NAT Loopback. Instant success!
 
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