On 6/17/06, Steven Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why are they reinventing the wheel ... is there any advantage of doing this. ?
Hehe... none that I can imagine. Infact they're wasting resources on developers to develop dialers and protocols. They could just have used the cyberoam client and protocol. But I guess Sify simply loves doing things the hard way ;-)
They have a few other uses for their dialer protocol on the windows environment like antivirus installation, version detection, etc. Also, their protocol is extensible in the sense that it uses XML strings to send parameters instead of delimited strings. That's why they're able to easily support two different types of protocols (there's a version 3 protocol as well which includes some cryptography just to dissuade independently released dialers for windows. They probably are too lazy to modify their linux dialer for that protocol). Siddhesh -- http://siddhesh.tk -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
