AntiDialer

Features and help (v0.2):

To activate the new Mac Address spoofing, simply edit the configuration file. In the config file at $HOME/.antidialer/antidialerrc, which is an XML file, you will find an element by the name of "MacAddress". You simply have to change the value fo the "value" attribute from "" to your mac address. An example:

<MacAddress value="ae a8 50 e0" />

Following is the full list of changes:

Version number bump. Only those downloading from CVS will have noticed this. I'm doing this since there have eventually been large changes in the plugin framework and the configuration options module. I'd say more than enough to increment a point release ;-)
Feature Request #1530816: MAC Address spoofing is now part of the dialer. To activate, simply edit the configuraton file $HOME/.antidialer/antidialerrc and enter the desired MAC address in the "value" property of the "MacAddress" element.
Bug Fix: The dialer now adds missing configuration elements into the config file. Thanks to Tathagata Banerjee for sending this report in.
Redesign of the plugin framework. The plugin framework is now cleaner and hence faster. This also fixed some obscure bug by which the dialer crashed when exactly one config element was missing. Fret not, this bug was only in the 0.1.1 CVS and not in the older releases.

Features (v0.1):

These features are newly implemented in version 0.1 of the dialer. The features specified in the older releases still exist unless mentioned otherwise. The current release is v0.2

QT Independent core console dialer
QT based UI implemented as a plugin

The Heartbeat functionality has been removed from v0.1. The reason for that is that to actually utilize the hearbeat functionality one needs to keep the dialer on. This will be best served with a tray icon plugin. Anyone interested?

Features (v0.0.1):

These features are implemented in version 0.0.1 of the dialer. The current release is v0.2

QT based GUI :-) (absent in the stock dialer provided by Sify)
AutoConnect
Encrypted password storage
HeartBeat to keep connection alive
XML based configuration file

Requirements and Dependencies:

Build Requirements:

AntiDialer is built with the QT3 widget toolkit. Hence, antidialer needs qt3-dev-tools (debian name) to build. The following tools are part of the qt tootset:

uic
moc
qmake

Apart from these tools you obviously require the following as well:

g++
make

The following libraries and development headers are required to build antidialer (again, debian names):

libqt3-mt-dev
libxml2-dev
libmcrypt4-dev
x windows system development libraries and headers

Binary Installation Requirements

The following libraries are required for antidialer to work:

libqt3-mt
libxml2
libmcrypt4

Needless to say, you need X Windows System too ;-)

CVS:

CVS access is provided by Sourceforge. There are two ways to access the CVS repositories; viz. through anonymous CVS and on the Web.

Anonymous Access

You may access the anonymous repository through your console with the following command:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@antidialer.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/antidialer \
	antidialer
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@antidialer.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/antidialer \
	co -P antidialer

This will download all the source code from CVS for you.

Web Based CVS

Sourceforge also provides Web based access to the CVS repository. This is useful if you simply want to take a look at some of the code or get names of various modules.

The Web based CVS is at:

http://antidialer.cvs.sourceforge.net/antidialer

License:

AntiDialer is distributed under the GNU/GPL v2. You will find a copy of the agreement in the package that you download. Alternatively, you may find the agreement online here.