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

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From: Irfan Khan <ikhan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:40:13 -0700


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.
On the other hand if we are removing the escaping as 2661 seems to suggest then would calling the ppp_hdlc dissector on the L2TP's PPP payload work?