[72957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sms messaging without a net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Aug 3 17:17:24 2004
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:16:46 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Brett <bretton@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew McGehrin <mcgehrin@reverse.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3ced34e5040803094972bd3d36@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Likewise, you can just give your monitoring machine a dialup or DSL
connection into someone else's network. It logs in, and sends through
their mail server.
Very few times will you run into such a large problem that your dial-up
provider and your own network both can't reach your cell/paging
provider. That scenario used to happen a lot more in the past than it
has in the last 4 years in my experience.
I also remember when the satellite that provided most of NA's satellite
paging had issues and nobody was getting pages unless they had a local
pager number backup.
Plan for the level of paranoia you want. If you use a national dialup
provider, you can always give your monitoring machine a few dialups all
over the country to try and connect through -- to avoid local problems.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
Brett wrote:
> If you put your monitor on the other side of the broken link, external
> to your network, then pages directly to the cell provider will go
> through. So, if your T3 goes down, an external monitor that is not
> affected by the outage can send the page.
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:44:00 -0400, Matthew McGehrin
> <mcgehrin@reverse.net> wrote:
>
>>For example, if your 'T-3' goes down, no point in sending an e-mail since
>>you don't have connectivity :) The original poster was trying to have
>>complete redundancy, so in the case of a 'fiber' cut where communications
>>are totally interrupted, using a cell phone would almost guarantee that the
>>page would be sent, rather than just queuing up in the mailqueue during the
>>outage.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Brett" <bretton@gmail.com>
>>To: "Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net>
>>Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:32 PM
>>Subject: Re: sms messaging without a net?
>>
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>
>
>
