Re: sms messaging without a net?

[Brett <bretton () gmail com>]

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 () 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.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett" <bretton () gmail com>
> To: "Dan Hollis" <goemon () anime net>
> Cc: <nanog () 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?