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RE: Wired access to SMS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Wed Oct 10 17:34:43 2012
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: Richard Brown <richard.e.brown@dartware.com>, "<nanog@nanog.org>"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:34:21 +0000
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> You could also hitch up an analog modem to a POTS line, and then let your=
paging software dial your cell/home number.=20
> You won't hear anything, but the CallerID will let you know that your mon=
itoring system is *desperately* trying to get in touch :-)
You could take it one step further and get an FXO card and put it in a very=
basic asterisk server. Write a simple program which call be pinged with i=
ssue reports as an argument, then pass those arguments to festvox or other =
TTS application. Output to WAV, convert to GSM, generate an asterisk call =
file (or write an extension) that calls you on the analog line, and plays y=
ou the sound file.
I've done this at several employers. It works fairly well - perhaps better=
than it sounds. If you can get a SIP upstream that will let you set your =
CID, then send the calls out that route first, and the POTS line becomes a =
backup - then if you ever get calls from the POTS DID, you know that you ha=
ve the original problem, plus you know that the connection to the SIP gatew=
ay is down.
Nathan Eisenberg
