Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection? Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year. The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability. Has anyone done this? -Dan
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
GNOKII and a suitable nokia phone. http://www.gnokii.org/ Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian@creative.net.au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
Use TAP (telocator access protocol) your monitoring application dials a modem pool logs on and sends a text message to the subscriber. Verizon, Cingular, Nextel all offer this service as does Skytel and most of the paging vendors. Scott C. McGrath On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
GNOKII and a suitable nokia phone.
Adrian
-- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian@creative.net.au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 05:17, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Can you use chat? http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/IRIA/knowledge_base/swatch.htm C
On 3 Aug 2004, at 11:17, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
velcro-strap a cheap, tired old nokia GSM phone with a serial cable to the side of the cabinet, and install something like gnokii (http://www.gnokii.org/) to allow your *ix box to send text messages through it. Joe
In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408030204480.4243-100000@sasami.anime.net>, Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> writes
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability.
I have a Nokia GSM "modem" on a PCMCIA card for my laptop. Usually for dial-up access to the Net when on the move. But it also sends and receives SMS - and obviously a much better UI on the laptop than a phone. It's about 3 years old now, I've seen them on ebay for peanuts. <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14408&item=631282 2524&rd=1> ps. It only needs an Orange SIM if you want data at more than 9.6K, SMS will work with any SIM (afaik). -- Roland Perry
Siemens MC35i - http://www.siemens-mobile.com/cds/frontdoor/0,2241,hq_en_0_954_rArNrNrNrN,00... I've run it (or variants of it) for 3 or 4 years on several systems without any problems. -Ronan On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:17:45AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
You have been pointed to the Cell phone solutions already (I'd recommend a Siemens in this case, as it uses AT-commands for everything ... extremely easy to script these). Apart from that some Cell phone providers did have a regular phone number where you could call, and send a message via a terminal program (might have been a 0900 number). You could ask the provider you want to send a SMS to, if they have this service.
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
Then tell them to reactivate it or tell your boss that your company has to change cell-phone providers, because AT&T doesn't provide the service (that you without doubt have in your contract) anymore.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability.
Give the sending PC a modem, to establish a internet connection with another provider. That way this PC has internet, even if your connection is broken. Dialup should be enough for sending out a SMS. Nils
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:17 am, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
We use SNPP directly to our Nextel phones. AFAIK nextel has an SNPP dialup at NPA-NXX-NOTE where the NPA-NXX is the same as your phone number. We have nagios due this via qpage, works like a charm. -Patrick -- Patrick Muldoon Network/Software Engineer INOC (http://www.inoc.net) PGPKEY (http://www.inoc.net/~doon) Key ID: 0x370D752C "It said, ""Insert disk #3,"" but only two will fit!"
One thing to watch.. these can be temperamental and liable to be disconnected without warning (or perhaps thats just here in the uk!) If you set this up as an emergency emergency system and it doesnt get used regualrly you might not realise the service has gone away... Steve On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Patrick Muldoon wrote:
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:17 am, Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
We use SNPP directly to our Nextel phones. AFAIK nextel has an SNPP dialup at NPA-NXX-NOTE where the NPA-NXX is the same as your phone number. We have nagios due this via qpage, works like a charm.
-Patrick
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
One thing to watch.. these can be temperamental and liable to be disconnected without warning (or perhaps thats just here in the uk!)
This is exactly what happened with AT&T. They shutdown their TAP gateway without warning, much to the surpise of many. -Dan
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? If it's a private network, it could do a web request every minute to a monitor. If it hasn't received a request in two minutes, send the page directly to the SMS provider. On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 02:17:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
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