On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:59:38AM +0200, Oliver Hamel wrote: > > Hi, > > I have some questions regarding kannel benefits in relation with gsm modems > as virtual smsc's (at driver). > > 1. > Using modems (e.g. wavecom) to send hundreds of thousand sms almost every day > at least one modem is going to fail continuous. > In order to reset the modem i have to stop it by using lynx: > lynx -dump > "http://[HOSTNAME]:[PORT]/stop-smsc?smsc=[SMSC_ID]&password=[PASSWORD]"; > By the moment the corresponding smsc is stopped, kannel also stops queuing > sms for this smsc. > The existing queue of the stopped smsc will fail continous till its empty > (mostly thousands of sms fail). > Is there no way to shift the sms from one to another smsc? if you have several smsc's with the same allowed prefixes, this works afaik.
> > 2. > Is there a way (maybe there is a patch) to store the message queues in > persistent memory (in order to stop the bearerbox process i have to shift all > the traffic to another gateway to ensure empty message queues)? yes, there are several. the older solution, store file, the newer one, by a.malysh store dir. pherhaps you 'd like to have a look at my new at driver available at http://tar.gzipped.org/kannel.tar.bz2 which tries to handle some errors in a more usefull manner. (feedback welcome here.) > > 3. > Sometimes (almost once a week) kannel stops forwarding dlr to the dlr-url. > The smsbox shows the start of the deliver report but the url is not fetched. > After restarting the smsbox (bearerbox is beyond running) the dlr-url is > fetched again until it stops fetching the dlr-url repeatedly. > > > Here goes my kannel header: > Kannel bearerbox version `cvs-20050510'. Build `May 12 2005 20:34:59', > compiler `3.4.3 20041125 (Gentoo 3.4.3-r1, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.7)'. > System Linux, release 2.6.11.9, version #3 SMP Thu May 12 21:14:03 > CEST 2005, machine x86_64. Hostname gsm4.dnsalias.net, IP > 84.191.49.195. Libxml version 2.6.17. Using OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct > 2004. Using native malloc. >
