Kannel WORKS under Cygwin, but don't even think about using it on production enironments. The threads on cygwin aren't reliable at all and you'll surely lose messages if you hava a fair amount of traffic.
It works fine for testing purposes and as a proof of concept, though. Hope it helps, On 6/14/05, Gareth Reakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brent, > > I have not heard of anyone making kannel work under cygwin (that they > admitted last time I asked), but Brian seems to be nearly there now. > Hopefully he will post a howto :) If he does get it working I don't see > why there would be a problem with using cygwin. I would guess that it > will be slower with all that windows stuff going on as well but if its > no problem for your throughput then its no problem. > > > Gareth > > Brent Goldspring wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We're thinking of trying out Kannel at work and I'm wondering if I > > should throw Cygwin on an existing Windows box and run Kannel off that > > or should I zap a spare box, throw Linux on it and run Kannel from there? > > > > I'm asking from a purely performance and ease-of-use perspective: which > > platform does Kannel run best on? If the trial goes according to plan > > then we will invest into dedicated resources for Kannel. > > > > If it matters: initially we will be using a GSM modem but we're looking > > to move to using an SMSC instead. > > > > thanks, > > Brent > > > > > > > > -- > Gareth Reakes, Managing Director Parthenon Computing > +44-1865-811184 http://www.parthcomp.com > > -- Alejandro Guerrieri Magicom http://www.magicom-bcn.net/
