bbs-revival February 2018

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FOSS Softmodems with Asterisk integration
by Christian Berger 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

Servus, There are actually multiple FOSS Softmodems. This one, for example, is based on spandsp: https://github.com/proquar/asterisk-Softmodem This one was written by myself and handles the data-link protocoll of BTX for error-free communications: https://github.com/Casandro/btx_modem It's also just 527 lines of code with the only external dependency being Asterisk. Then there's also IAXModem, but that's mainly aimed at Faxes. There's actually a big advantage of using software based modems over hardware based ones. With IP-Telephony it is vital to have proper clocks. Unfortunately many bad ATAs have really bad clocks. So your sender might send out its voice with 8010 Hz sampling rate, while the receiver might run at 7090 Hz That means that eventually you will have buffers running over and samples being thrown away. This is very bad for modems and one of the reasons why T.38 was invented. However with a software based modem you can just send a packet of data for every packet you get, so essentially, if it isn't converted to TDM in the middle, you'll adapt to the speed of the ATA. (The obvious sane solution to that would of course be to simply use NTP to determine the frequency error of your system and then adjust your sample rate so it'll be precisely 8kHz on average. However sane people usually don't work in that field because of SIP) Servus Christian

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Modern Wardialer and Linmodem with VoIP
by Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Hello, i read about this project that i found quite exciting in it's goals: http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/bbs-revival/2018-January/000003.html With a friend during the (very limited) spare time we're developing a pure python modern based SIP/RTP/G711 wardialer, to let younger generation get having fun with old school phreaking stuff. Because of the DSP modem related complexities, we've decided to focus only on: - Fast signaling scanning of phone prefixes to find existing phone numbers - Fast scanning on existing phone numbers by recording some 10-15s of audio, then processing it It will be something like: ./wardial.py -h sip-hostname -p port -u username -p password -c parallel channel -r range-XX-XXX (or --input numberlist) -o logfile --fast (fast scan to check which number exists without looking for carriers) --wait-between-calls --timeout However the final goal would be also to hook a software modem to make an handshake with the remote modem, grab the banner but also provide a virtual serial interface to let play with the remote system using minicom or whatever terminal emulation software. But there's no softmodem and easy to be hooked piece of code to do it, until now, as i saw this lovely project recovering linmodem. I wanted to share our goals as will be keeping an eye on the project where the linmodem/voip/virtualserial integration could be a really nice companion to complete a modern wardialing kit for 2018 :-) -naif

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State of the BBS
by "Ola Ekström" 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Hi there! I just stumbled on this list, it seems like the project just started, yes? I was a frequent BBS user in the 90's and still "call" (by telnet) BBS' from time to time, most frequently a BBS in Finland (it's on a VPS these days so I'm not sure it's actually hosted _in_ Finland anymore) called Haciend El Bananas. I recommend it, it's focused on ANSI art and bullshit-chat and there might be some files to download also but I'm not so interested in that anymore so I don't keep track. I use Syncterm to call those boards that use MS-DOS character graphics, it works pretty well. Regular *nix shell telnet can connect too but the ANSI will look like vomit. Fidonet isn't the only BBS echo active out there, on the top of my head I can remember Agoranet, Retronet and Zeronet (for the elite! ;)). I didn't have access to internet when Usenet was still a thing so I'd also be interested in some Usenet/UUCP revival. I check som NNTP news from time to time but the traffic is real low nowadays if you go outside the binary groups. Outside household python scripting I can't code but I can contribute something else eventually I hope. Cheers, Ola

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Docker Images
by Ingo Jürgensmann 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Hi! Although personally not a big friend of Docker images I came across the following posts on planet.debian.org, which might be of interest for this list: http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9836-an-old-dos-bbs-in-a-docker-cont… -- Ciao... // http://blog.windfluechter.net Ingo \X/ XMPP: ij(a)jabber.windfluechter.net gpg pubkey: http://www.juergensmann.de/ij_public_key.asc

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