The
“
Routing
Options” dialog for
a modem connection contains a field to set
the Phone Number of the GSM modem for that
connection. This field is not required, but
if the field is set, then the following will
be enabled:
- Inbound messages arriving on that GSM modem
connection will be associated with this
phone number. For 2-way SMS applications,
the phone number is included in the @@Recip@@
parameter. Additionally, all inbound messages
arriving on this interface can be queued
for delivery to an SMPP Client account that
uses this gateway as its SMPP Server.
- When a sender address is included
in a message submitted to the gateway for
delivery, and the sender address matches
the configured phone number for a particular
GSM modem connection, the gateway will ensure
that the message is sent via this GSM modem.
“Routing
Options” are available
for all SMSC connections defined to the
gateway. For SMPP, UCP/EMI and HTTP connections,
the “Routing” group of options
is displayed on the standard configuration
dialog. For modem connections, a separate
dialog is displayed when “Properties”
is selected for the connection.
If “Support
any outbound message traffic”
is checked, this connection is available
to route any messages, unless the recipient
of the message appears as a “Preferred
SMSC Connection” for another connection.
If “Support
any outbound message traffic”
is not checked, this connection will only
route messages when the recipient of the
message appears in the “Preferred
SMSC Connection” list for this connection.
The “Preferred
SMSC Connection” list
specifies one or more patterns to match
to determine if a message should be routed
by a particular connection. Patterns consist
of a phone number string, and can include
the wildcard characters “*”
and “?”. The “*”
character matches any number of characters,
and the “?” character matches
any single character. When a pattern is
defined on a preferred connection list,
it means that any messages to recipients
that match this pattern will be routed ONLY
by this connection (unless another connection
shares the same preferred connection pattern).
In the example above, the connection will
route any messages to recipients in the
“+44” country code (because
“+44*” is on the preferred SMSC
connection list for this connection). Also,
this connection will route messages for
any other recipients where the recipient
does NOT match a pattern on the preferred
list for any other connection.
In the example above, any other defined
connections would not route messages for
recipients in the “+44” country
code, unless “+44*” was repeated
on the preferred connection list for another
connection.
