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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 19:28:39 -0800
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:15:22PM -0700, Irfan Khan wrote:
> 0x7e is escaped in PPP (preceded by 0x7d).

To be precise, 0x7e is escaped in PPP in HDLC-like framing.  However, at
least as I read the L2TP spec, the framing is supposed to be removed by
the time the packets are encapsulated in L2TP, so that a 0x7e is just a
0x7e.