Help - Some basic questions!

[Godinho, Carla]

Title: Help - Some basic questions!

Hi dear users of Kannel!
I've been using kannel at home to test sending SMS through HTTP to mobiles, and so far it is working.
But I have three main questions that came up with those tests and which I would like your help!!!

1) Everytime I change the smskannel.conf file I need to restart the kannel gateway (kill bearebox and launch it again), is there any good way to avoid this? I mean, updating the kannel configuration file without stopping the kannel to assume the changes?

2) The tests I've been doing to sent SMS is based on the SMS Push example, described in the Kannel User's Guide, and it is working! But, I realized that everytime I sent an SMS through the Internet browser (HTTP) there is a new connection established with the smsbox HTTP Port (I see that executing the command netstat -a | more). So I am wondering... if I want to send 10 000 sms will I have 10 000 TCP/IP connections established with that port? Probably I am missing something! How does it work the Port connections with HTTP client? Shouldn't the connection between the HTTP client and the SMSbox close after sending an SMS. I'm worried about this behavior!


I'll do appreciate your help on this matter!
Thanks in advance
CG