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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] PPP dissector bug

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:05:32 -0800
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:56:19PM -0700, Irfan Khan wrote:
> Yup, these are framing bytes.  I thought it better to put the check for 
> any unexpected 0x7e s in packet-ppp to make it more bug-proof :)

But what if there happens to be a PPP protocol with a value 0x7eXX, for
some value of "XX"?  Unlikely, I suspect, but should we be stripping
0x7e's out unconditionally?

(And what were the 0x7e's doing in there?  Incorrect stripping of link
framing by the LAC?)
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