How do I set up Kannel to use SMPP?

To set up the Kannel gateway (http://www.kannel.org) to use the SMPP service you should add the appropriate connection information into the configuration file (check the Kannel documentation for more information). A sample configuration file might look like:

Example

smsc = smpp
host = sms1.cardboardfish.com
port = 9000
transceiver-mode = yes
alt-charset = ISO-8859-1 (NB if not included, you must use port 8000)
smsc-username = USERNAME
smsc-password = PASSWORD
system-type = ""
address-range = ""
maximum-pending-submits = 10

Please note that our implementation ignores system-type, auth-ton, service-type and auth-npi-range values.

The important fields are:

• host- this should be set to sms1.cardboardfish.com
• port- this should be set to either 9000 for ISO-8859-1 encoding or 8000 for GSM encoding
• smsc-username- set this to your assigned username
• smsc-password- set this to your assigned password

Please note that setting maximum-pending-submits to 10 will give you increased throughput by enabling up to 10 pending operations.

For more information on configuring Kannel, please consult the Kannel documentation available here.