[72948] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: sms messaging without a net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Tue Aug 3 12:05:00 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:04:07 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>,
"Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> 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
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
> GNOKII and a suitable nokia phone.
You could also have a dial-on-demand analog modem over a pots line that
dials a competitor ;-) but overall gnokii is what makes the most sense
because it has the less fate sharing: if a backhoe digs your data and
phone at the same time, chances are that the GSM will still work.
=20
Michel.
