Sify Broadband Alternative client - probably soon

Hi everyone,
This is only my 4th post, so I guess nobody knows me. I"ll take this opportunity to introduce myself.

I'm a foreign student living near Pondichery. I also work part-time as sysadmin in a school where we got sify as only connection offering unlimited connections - limited to 75 MB as you all know :angry:
I'm into networks, electronics and photography. Trying to get to know linux better too. Bit of programming too, but not my main interest.

From the moment I first saw the sify client, I knew we had to get rid of it !
Besides, we got a single-floppy router based on fli4l and the sify linux client doesn't work on it - and it's way to big to fit on the single floppy with the rest of the progs, anyway.

So I tried understanding how the prog works - network scanning mainly. I'm in the process of writing an alternative client which will be published open-source, of course 😉

I've also found an excellent autospy of the program by www.indiasec.com. Check it out !
Sify dialer for linux reverse-engineered

I also encourage any programers who've attempted anything like this to publish their experiences on this board. Will publish mine in a couple of days.

I look forward to meeting y'all more closely and hope to find interesting posts here in the future too.

Coriolan

that would be so cool. 🙂 i had be happy to host it...

There should be more people like you who care for others.Keep it up. I will be looking forward to it.

There's a thread to this effect already going on in the Backroom since the last few days http://forum.seo4india.com/index.php?showtopic=300 though only 1 reply to it till now lol.

Consider relocating this to there too for reasons we have discussed before 😉

we dont have the client here atm 🙂 the moment we have, it goes there. 😛

Any Alternative client for Windows users ?

yes and no.Right now I'm working on a PHP version of it ... yeah I know, not the ideal language, but it has cool networking functions.Then I'll write a command-line c version for unix/linux. Since it'll be open source, anyone can port it to windows, but I'll probably not developp a windows version myself.

php version... that would mean running a webserver to login 😛 damn, i was almost writing up that i would be happy to host it so that anyone can login but then u have to be logged in to access the website 😛

yeah, but as I said, it's only a test version, and the c version is already on it's way.so the php version is only my personal draft and I wasn't thinking of actually releasing it - unless someone wants it

It might actually interest people with a small network wanting to share connections for the users and adding web-interfaced management.

Originally posted by inetbum@Nov 22 2004, 01:07 PM
There's a thread to this effect already going on in the Backroom since the last few days  http://forum.seo4india.com/index.php?showtopic=300 though only 1 reply to it till now lol.

Consider relocating this to there too for reasons we have discussed before 😉
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I can't access that page. How do you register for it ?

your no. of posts must be atlest 30. 🙂 🙁

Originally posted by fullyaddicted@Nov 26 2004, 06:00 AM
your no. of posts must be atlest 30. 🙂  🙁
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Alright. Not too hard I guess.
But why, actually. More confidential issues, or what is kept there.
No, no, I'm not curious 🙄

Originally posted by cweihrauch@Nov 26 2004, 06:23 AM
Alright. Not too hard I guess.
But why, actually. More confidential issues, or what is kept there.
No, no, I'm not curious  🙄
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just making it a bit harder for any random guy to drop in there. same reasons for preventing googlebot's entry.