[WT-support] Win-Test Bridgehead Sync Problems

[Mario Lorenz]

Hello Larry,

Unfortunately,
we are seing severe instability all over the net again for this year's
HQ setup. Admittedly, with some 60 computers in the net, this is a
slightly bigger than usual operation, but:

There is a severe discrepancy between the QSO # at the local bridgehead
station and all other stations in the local LAN, differing by some 500
QSOs.

I have tried restarting the bridgehead station -- no change of
situation. I demoted that bridgehead to be a normal station and made
another station bridgehead.
This caused a *HUGE* ammount of sync traffic on the outside net, and I
am slowly getting all those missing QSOs in, but still, it does not look
like the other stations in the LAN are catching on. 

Anything I can look at and do to find that problem ?

Also: When Auto-loading the contest file on start of win-test,
on the time master, it appears time master functionality is not enabled
(ie. no TIME packets are being sent). This only happens if you manually
load the contest file...

[note: still at 4.16 since as always 4.17 was too late for testing...]

Best regards and good luck in the contest,


Mario, @DA0HQ


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