Ah, ok I see where I misunderstood you, thank you for the explanation. So yes, your description is correct, apart from one detail: in our scenario we actually receive both MO and MT SMSs (from the subscriber's POV) as we are acting as an SMS archiving service, and home routing is performed on the subscriber's SMSC. The subscriber's SMSC forwards a copy of the message to us.
So for both MO and MT, the message arrives at kannel #1, is forwarded to a REST API. If the response from the REST API is 'Not found', the message is sent back down to bearerbox and forwarded to kannel #2. Is this doable? Thanks Jim -----Original Message----- From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:st...@kannel.org] Sent: 27 September 2016 20:46 To: Jim Page <jim.p...@redmatter.com> Cc: users@kannel.org Subject: Re: Route message to backup kannel box on SMS service failure Am 27.09.16 19:19, schrieb Jim Page: > Hi Stipe > Sorry if I am being dim, but the incoming message is MT, isn't it, and the > outgoing message is MO? Or have I misunderstood something fundamental? > If not, and in your statement below MO and MT are round the wrong way, then > you are correct - on an sms service REST failure: convert MT message to MO in > the smsbox context and pass it back to bearerbox to be forwarded to another > SMSC. > FYI - these two SMSCs both belong to us, but operate in different divisions > of our service. Hi Jim, now, let's first make sure the "definition part" is clear. MT = mobile terminate message, defines a message from the application layer TOWARDS the mobile subscriber. MO = mobile originated message, defines a message from the mobile subscriber towards the application layer (may be SMSC, where it then converts to an MT again, it send to another person). So, what I understood is that an MO is send from a mobile, coming in from the SMSC towards Kannel, and then forwarded to an REST API. IF that API fails, the message convert to an MT and is send to bearerbox for transportation to another SMSC. Is this scenario summary correct? -- Best Regards, Stipe Tolj ------------------------------------------------------------------- Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany Kannel Foundation tolj.org system architecture http://www.kannel.org/ http://www.tolj.org/ st...@kannel.org s...@tolj.org -------------------------------------------------------------------
