Sify broadband alternative login clients

[chip_0]

[Sify provides three official (platform dependant and closed) source clients for users to login to their broadband service. Unfortunately, these clients are bloated, buggy, and do not run on less common operating systems. However, three independant persons have released different alternative clients, both for BSD/linux and Windows]

***FIRST READ***

Working of the sify login client (for linux) paper by Prathap of the IndiaSec Reverse Engineering team

http://www.indiasec.com/papers/pratap/sify.html

And now for the stuff

SuperSify v0.52
http://forum.seo4india.com/sify/supersify/
Win32 console client
Author - Infernalproteus

My personal favourite among the clients, because of its sheer configuratibility. Currently it is a console based client, and has no GUI

Features -

1. Login and logout through console commands, with 6 switches (4 optional)
2. Ability to disable heartbeating, even if you have not asked sify to disable it for your user id (that is, it will log you in and exit). It also supports heartbeating, if you need it.
3. Just 80kb of memory eaten up
4. You can change the MAC address information sent to sify

Easysify 2.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easysify/
Windows GUI client
Author - Bhaskar Kishore

Another excellent client, this one. This is the client to use if you are leaving the pc on for a long time, and want it to stay connected (see Keep Alive in the features)

Features -

Too many to list

Alternative client for linux
*nix/*BSD
http://puggy.symonds.net/~srp/sify.c
Author - Bhushan Tiwari

While this client is not fully finished, it is an important one, as the official one does not work on systems like FreeBSD, slackware etc. The author is working on it, and hopefully we will see a very stable version soon. Currently it misses logout.

Features -

1. Logs you in, and exits, doesn't sit in the memory.
2. Is open source (C Language) and works in several operating systems.

Installation instructions -

Make sure the development packages for your OS are installed
In the directory you downloaded the file, run

gcc -o sifyconnect sify.c

to compile the client.

To connect, type ./sifyconnect

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Support for all of them, and for troubleshooting sify in general, would be at the sify broadband forum -
http://forum.seo4india.com/Sify_Broadband-f21.html

 

[MaxX]

4. You can change the MAC address information sent to sify

Are there any legitimate uses of that :devil: :devil2:

 

[chip_0]

Yes...

Sify has started an IP address - MAC address binding for each user, so if your MAC address changes, you can use it to login untill sify changes to settings for you

 

[Darthcoder]

OK..Am bumping this

Anybody has any idea about this??

I want to connect to the net through Linux (Ubuntu 6.**) and I cant find any alternative sify linux clients.

Please help me .

 

[chip_0]

Projects::AntiDialer: GUI Dialer for Sify Broadband::Main

Its a GUI QT based client for linux. You need to install QT libraries though. If the linux clients give you an error message that you are running an older version, you need to phone the customer care and tell them the problem.

 

[SharekhaN]

try wine , see if you can do that way ,,,Wine for Ubuntu help

 

[Darthcoder]

OK, I first tried using anti-dialer and for that I needed qt libraries,xmllib and xmlxrypt libraries so I downloaded them and installed "make"d them.But for some reason that darn antidialer wont "make" giving some weird xmlcrypt error, am really pi$$ed after doing so much.

Next I tried using wine, copied the Sify directory to my ubuntu desktop and tried to run it with wine, first it gave me the error that 2 dlls, mfc42 and mscvp60.dll were missing, so i copy pasted them into the directory from another system (in which sify was working fine) and tried again and got an error saying that BBAppdll.ddl was missing despite the file being present in the same directory!!I can see BBAppdll.dll in that sify directory and still it gives me that error .

Now please tell me what do i have to do to get my internet connection running in ubuntu .

Thanks.

 

[siddheshp]

Hi Darthcoder,

You don't really need to build antidialer using make. There are binary packages also available. For Ubuntu you can use the .deb packages. All you need to do is download that and do:

dpkg -i antidialer_0.2-1_i386.deb

If you have all dependencies installed (libqt-mt and libmcrypt4) you'll be through.

Download the deb from here:

Browsing Download Server: /antidialer/antidialer_0.2-1_i386.deb
Regards,
Siddhesh

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Siddhesh Poyarekar's Web Home

 

[PriyoBan]

There should be a system in place to stop people from bringing up ancient threads like these...

 

[Darthcoder]

^ Dear Priyoban Sir,

If someone encounters a problem with something and a thread already exists on that, then isnt it better to just bump it up rather than start a new thread??

And If you cant suggest a solution then please do not post replies like those .

@siddhesh: Thanks dude.But I guess, the sify guys now give out a shell script on their website which installs the sifyd service and I can now easily connect to the net using that shell script.

Thanks for your effort nonetheless .

 

[PriyoBan]

^^ The reason I said that was cuz... all the solution or information suggested in the beginning are mostly outdated... and will not work for many... so isn't it better to start a new thread with fresh info...

and as for u alternative client... y dont u try supersify.... it works for me... and almost all the sify users i kno... really good with the keep alive feature.