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6 bearerbox, wapbox, smsbox - Parts of Kannel, the WAP and SMS gateway
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9 bearerbox [options...] [conffile]
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11 wapbox [options...] [conffile]
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16 Kannel is an WAP and SMS gateway. WAP is short for Wireless Applica‐
17 tion Protocol, and is used to implement hypertext based services on
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23 Kannel consists of three programs, usually run as daemons: bearerbox,
24 wapbox, and smsbox. They implement the connection to the phone (SMS or
25 UDP), the WAP protocol stack, and the SMS based services, respectively.
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27 For more information, see http://www.kannel.org or file://usr/doc/kan‐
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