Yashpal Nagar wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > >>> why not just hook up an old mobile phone to the Monitoring system and >>> use that ? >>> >>> doing alerts over the network ( like email / URL / webservice etc ) >>> brings a massive disadvantage : that the system might be trying to >>> complain about the same network being out! >>> >>> >>> >> Shiv, >> >> my point was that such a sms_gateway is of no use, if the network access >> to the sms_gateway itself is going to be down! >> >> and, err... TopPosting sucks.. >> >> - K >> >> > As a matter of the fact which i believe is one need to use SMS gateway > when you have bulk of messages to be broadcast, for a fewer broadcats a > mobile with a GSM modem should do..
mobile phone = gsm modem. it has ( || should ?) everything you need for both outbound and inbound sms. I have my nokia 6210 hooked up in a manner that i can remote reboot machines ( including powercycle the router / gateway if required ). > Secondly if i am not wrong mobile will do a serial broadcast and a SMS > gateway can render SMSs almost immediately to all mobile users .? ( I presume this is where we decide this conversation to be no longer relevant to the OP .... ) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
