Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: Decoding PPP over IP

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:32:07 +0200
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:10:04AM -0700, Darren Adkinson wrote:
> 
> Thanks Ronnie. It is indeed ppp straight on top of udp, no standard that
> I'm aware of, although I know of at least two wireless applications
> using this procedure. The protocol stack:
> 
> Data ---------------- Data
> IP1  ---------------- IP1
> PPP  ---------------- PPP
> UDP  ---------------- UDP
> IP2  -----  IP  ----- IP2
> L2   ----  L2|L2 ---- L2
> PHY  ---- PHY|PHY --- PHY

Which udp port are you using? How are the frame delimiters protected?
Byte stuffing? One frame per UDP packet?

 ciao
  Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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