Re: SMS gateways

[Alex Buie <alex.buie () frozenfeline net>]

Based on a cursory pass of the FB website I can't find any of their
products that have a CDMA modem - so they're definitely incorrect in that
sense. Voice, text, 2G and 3G data are all CDMA on Verizon, unless you're
doing something with SMS over IMS which is only supported with LTE capable
hardware on the Verizon side.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:40 PM, David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com
> wrote:

> Scott, I was interested in that as well, it was in my original post.  I’m
> considering that and the SMSEagle; both are from Europe.  I can’t find too
> much on them from a real world war stories perspective, but there has been
> mention of the FoxBox on nanog in years past, so there are some users out
> there.
>
> I am not going the Microtik+cell modem route that Faisal mentioned in his
> reply post because the intent is to tie the SMS alerting into other systems
> using some form of API, and both FoxBox and SMSEagle make that incredibly
> easy by having a simple http interface for sending texts, or a full API if
> you need to do two way.  The nagios plugin (and Zabbix too) are super
> simple since it’s just HTTP POST to send the alerts.
>
> FoxBox claims it will work on Verizon networks because of the 3G support,
> but that doesn’t leave me with a comfortable feeling, so if we buy in, we’d
> probably get accounts from a GSM carrier for it, although I can’t find
> whether or not AT&T, etc. offer machine accounts, and I would not want to
> pay $50/mo per device just to send random texts.
>
> I did get an off list reply from someone who let me know that our existing
> OpenGear devices (cell+ethernet console servers that run linux) have the
> ability to send SMS using a utility already present in the OS install.
> Since we already have those in every location we’d also be putting an SMS
> gateway, I’m going to investigate if we could put a cgi script or something
> similar on them to accomplish the same goal with no additional equipment.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> On 1/7/16, 3:34 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Scott Fisher" <
> nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of littlefishguy () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone having experience getting this to work on US networks?
> >
> > http://www.smsfoxbox.it/en/foxbox-lx800-gateway-100.html/
> >
> > I am interested on getting this working with our Nagios notifications.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for those pointers. The "mega bill" problem is one I have to
> avoid. We used to use ISDN as backup to T1 circuits,
> > > > but had to abandon that after some wayward fail-overs resulted in $5000
> phone bills. I'll check the plan overage terms
> > > > carefully!
> > >
> > > Sounds like an excellent application for a $10/mo prepaid plan on
> > > something like Tracfone.  If disaster strikes and you need a lot of
> > > data one month, you can add extra credit directly from the phone.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott