sms messaging without a net?

Tue Aug 3 21:16:46 UTC 2004

Likewise, you can just give your monitoring machine a dialup or DSL 
connection into someone else's network. It logs in, and sends through 
their mail server.

Very few times will you run into such a large problem that your dial-up 
provider and your own network both can't reach your cell/paging 
provider. That scenario used to happen a lot more in the past than it 
has in the last 4 years in my experience.

I also remember when the satellite that provided most of NA's satellite 
paging had issues and nobody was getting pages unless they had a local 
pager number backup.

Plan for the level of paranoia you want. If you use a national dialup 
provider, you can always give your monitoring machine a few dialups all 
over the country to try and connect through -- to avoid local problems.

Deepak Jain
AiNET

Brett wrote:
> If you put your monitor on the other side of the broken link, external
> to your network, then pages directly to the cell provider will go
> through.  So, if your T3 goes down, an external monitor that is not
> affected by the outage can send the page.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:44:00 -0400, Matthew McGehrin
> <mcgehrin at reverse.net> wrote:
> 
>>For example, if your 'T-3' goes down, no point in sending an e-mail since
>>you don't have connectivity :) The original poster was trying to have
>>complete redundancy, so in the case of a 'fiber' cut where communications
>>are totally interrupted, using a cell phone would almost guarantee that the
>>page would be sent, rather than just queuing up in the mailqueue during the
>>outage.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Brett" <bretton at gmail.com>
>>To: "Dan Hollis" <goemon at anime.net>
>>Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:32 PM
>>Subject: Re: sms messaging without a net?
>>
>>
>>>Any reason the monitor can't be external, then send an SMS via email
>>>directly to the cell phone provider, rather than an alias on the down
>>>network?
>>
>>
> 
> 