I have the same thing. Smpp connections going stale. A possible cause is that the remote smpp connection gets killed and Kannel doesn't see that. It thinks that it is still connected. Result is that sms messages get queued but not delivered.
== Rene -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benjamin Lee Sent: Friday, 23 March, 2012 16:43 To: Niel; Alexander Malysh Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Kannel-Users] Re: SMPP re-connect termination. 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.
