Hello, I'm new to WAP so I apologize if my questions are uninformed. I'm attempting to set myself up with my own WAP gateway, because Verizon's default MSN gateway isn't useful to me. I have attempted to use waptunnel.com's, but its availability has been less than passable.
My question is this: is it enough to have a server with a static IP, running kannel's wapbox software, to have a WAP gateway? There is a section in the user docs that describes modems and other associated hardware, but nothing else I have seen in the docs or in the past 5 months of this list's archives (I've checked back to August) indicates that I might need anything other than a valid IP address. I have kannel installed, and I'm running bearerbox and wapbox (on RH 9). I have attempted to telnet to the configured port from a remote machine to verify that the server is running, and have seen connection attempts correctly logged by bearerbox (though not by wapbox). When I try to do this same thing using my handset, a Nokia 3589i, the server connection times out, and the bearerbox log does not register any attempt. What am I missing here? Could this be a case of my provider blocking my ability to connect to third-party gateways? I have tried to use the same port as verizon with no success, and I can also connect to phone.com's gateway if I need to, so I'm not sure that's the issue. Any help, explanation, or pointers to a more informative source than kannel.org's docs in the case of an "RTFM" would be greatly appreciated. -mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html
