What I find though is that sometimes it's not connectivity that is lost per se, but that the smsc simply starts rejecting messages, for some reason or other. In such circumstances I'm not yet sure that enquire_link will reveal this, but it seemed to me one way to keep tabs on things.
P. Nisan Bloch wrote: > > At 09:24 AM 2/26/02 +0300, P. A. Bagyenda wrote: > >Hi, > > > > I notice that the enquire_link message is sent every so often by the > >SMPP code, but I don't seem to see anywhere that any errors are checked > >for and used to update the list of SMSCs. This makes failover a bit of a > >problem. Best attack point for fix, if this is a bug? > > This isnt a bug; the SMPP module will try to reconnect if it loses > connectivity. The bearerbox routing will not route messages to a SMSC > module that is down. So by using smsc-ids and multiple connections to > different SMSCs you can build redundancy. > > I personally would like to see better info passed back to smsbox from the > bearerbox modules; eg ".Cannot find SMSCConn for message to <27834151519>, > rejected" - maybe as a DLR. > > nisan > Nisan > > >Paul.
