[72949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sms messaging without a net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett)
Tue Aug 3 12:32:45 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:32:03 -0700
From: Brett <bretton@gmail.com>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408030204480.4243-100000@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Any reason the monitor can't be external, then send an SMS via email
directly to the cell phone provider, rather than an alias on the down
network?
If it's a private network, it could do a web request every minute to a
monitor. If it hasn't received a request in two minutes, send the
page directly to the SMS provider.
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 02:17:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> 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
>
>
