Extracting Excitel PPPoE Credentials

No idea why this is exposed, but here we are.Most big ISPs in India are incompetent and don’t know what they are doing half of the time, like Jio and Airtel. Local ISPs (Excitel here) are even worse when it comes to support, but at least they are cheaper — that’s the main difference! As a self-host maxxer, I want to get rid of any and all company-provided hardware for various reasons; one being the lack of updates and locked-down operating systems with barely any features. PPPoE is a common protocol used by ISPs to authenticate our internet connections through their servers. So how do we extract the username and password? Well, it’s very straightforward: Open the gateway portal in your browser (10.0.0.1 in my case) — the login credentials are usually provided by the installation guy. Once you’re in, navigate to the “Internet” section from the top menu, open Inspect Element > Console, and run: links.map(l => ({ user: l.encodePppUserName && atob(l.encodePppUserName), pass:…