RE: bug in siemens tc53 at2

> Why does it do that ? The way I understand it, OK means OK - got it,
> thank you, you can go home now :-) does the manual document it ?
Actually it doesn't.
I spoke with a guy from Siemens who said this.
I found out because I was loosing some outgoing messages.

> What do you think we should do about it - I see several options :
> * Treat OK as an error (retry again immidietly until the "retry limit"
> and then discard the message).
> * treat it as a special error, forcing a delay.
> * treat it as a temporary failure, bouncing it to the top of the local
> outgoing_queue
> * treat it as a temporary failure, sending it back to bearerbox with a
> FAILED_TEMPORARY status.
> 
> I think the last two are the easiest to implement and offer the more
> "correct" way of handling such stuff.
I think you are right.
Maybe a short delay (1-5 s) would be a good idea as well?

Best regards,
Jacob Vennervald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oded Arbel [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 1. maj 2002 13:45
> To: Jacob Vennervald Madsen; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: bug in siemens tc53 at2
> 
> 
> Why does it do that ? The way I understand it, OK means OK - got it,
> thank you, you can go home now :-) does the manual document it ?
> What do you think we should do about it - I see several options :
> * Treat OK as an error (retry again immidietly until the "retry limit"
> and then discard the message).
> * treat it as a special error, forcing a delay.
> * treat it as a temporary failure, bouncing it to the top of the local
> outgoing_queue
> * treat it as a temporary failure, sending it back to bearerbox with a
> FAILED_TEMPORARY status.
> 
> I think the last two are the easiest to implement and offer the more
> "correct" way of handling such stuff.
> 
> --
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jacob Vennervald Madsen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:49 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: bug in siemens tc53 at2
> > 
> > 
> > Hi List
> > 
> > I think there is a bug in the Siemens TC35 AT2 code.
> > When a message is sent through a Siemens TC35 in PDU mode 
> it can send
> > three different responses:
> > 
> > +CMGS:<mr>OK
> > This means that the message was successfully sent.
> > 
> > OK
> > This means that the modem understood the command but it 
> could not send
> > the message.
> > 
> > +CMS ERROR:<err>
> > This means that the modem didn't understand the command.
> > 
> > If I send a lot of messages back and forth on a Siemens modem some
> > messages doesn't get sent because kannel takes the OK message as
> > successful sending when it really should try sending again.
> > 
> > Jacob Vennervald
> > 
> > 
>