Niel, Wow, this is really old... ;-P
Could you please describe / elaborate exactly what you mean by a *stale* SMPP connection? On Tuesday, 2012-02-21 at 01:30:51 AM, Niel scribbled: > > > Benjamin Lee <benjaminlee <at> users.sf.net> writes: > > > > > I agree with Alexander, this needs a FAQ entry. > > > > I first stumbled across this _behaviour_ a few years ago using a > > provider M*3*6*5* which will remained unnamed. ;-P > > > > Since, kannel is actually behaving correctly. The solution we > > implemented involved monitoring kannel status via curl and > > /status?password= and detecting the links that were disconnected... > > and restarting them automatically via /start-smsc?smsc= > > > > This solution seemed better than hacking kannel into coping with a > > poor / buggy SMPP server implementation... and... the nice side affect > > was that the monitoring scripts produced logs for _bad password_ / > > disconnected incidents. These logs could be graphed with RRDTool -- > > although I have not done this yet. > > > > > > > Know this is old, but just for the heck of it. > > I've been continuously experiencing SMPP connections just going stale, and for > some aparent reason bearerbox feels this is not noteworthy to log to file > (even > with loglevel set to 0). Outbound queue for Africa. > > Restarting bearerbox or the SMSC using start-smsc?smsc= causes more pain. In > both cases the connected smsbox also dies, which is a BIG problem when you are > continuously sending SMSs. > > For a while I used tcpkill to cut the TCP connections every 15 minutes, but > found out the hard way that messages are getting lost in the process. > > I see this problem as been around for years, with no solution is sight. > > <sigh> > > > > On Friday, 2012-02-24 at 03:25:04 AM, Alexander Malysh scribbled: > Hi Niel, > > I don't remember anymore what was a cause of this , could you please describe? > > Alex > *snip* -- Benjamin Lee mailto:[email protected] Melbourne, Australia http://www.realthought.net Linux / BSD / GNU tel:+61 4 16 BEN LEE Open Source "invest in your world" __________________________________________________________________________ The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.
