Re: scalability of kannel

Andreas Fink wrote:
>> You can run as many SMS boxes and WAP boxes as you want on different 
>> machines sharing the load of one bearerbox's traffic.
>> That's ok.
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>> >Besides that, you can also pile multiple bearerbox/smsbox 
>> applications in parallel
>> what is the interest to have more than one bearerbox in the same 
>> machine ?
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> none. You would run multiple bearerboxes on different machines 
> connecting to the same smsc for example. every one would handle the 
> same keywords in parallel.
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>> Is it possible to connect two bearerbox installed in two different 
>> machines to the same smsc with the same account ?  for fault tolerance.
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> Depends a bit on the SMSC but basically yes.
> in terms of MO processing this is no problem. Incoming SMS can be 
> handled by either bearerbox/smsbox bundle as long as the configs are 
> the same.
> in terms of MT processing, there should be two different accounts as 
> the SMSC might return a delivery report to the wrong machine 
> otherwise. By using a different account, you make sure the delivery 
> report gets to the same machine who submitted it.
..or you can have shared dlr storage (as in a database) and work around 
that.
but basically, if you want HA and load balancing, you'll want shared dlr 
storage anyhow.
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