[72947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sms messaging without a net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Muldoon)
Tue Aug 3 11:59:08 2004
From: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:58:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408030204480.4243-100000@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:17 am, Dan Hollis wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
> connection?
>
> Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly
> runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins
> know their net has gone down. :-P
>
> AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
>
> The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS
> messaging capability.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> -Dan
We use SNPP directly to our Nextel phones. AFAIK nextel has an SNPP dialup at
NPA-NXX-NOTE where the NPA-NXX is the same as your phone number. We have
nagios due this via qpage, works like a charm.
-Patrick
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