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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!pisa.citi.umich.edu!rees
  2. From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
  4. Subject: Re: PPP via intermediate links
  5. Date: 12 Nov 1992 20:26:44 GMT
  6. Organization: University of Michigan CITI
  7. Lines: 11
  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <5c5436cd.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu>
  10. References: <1ck9arINNjro@gap.caltech.edu> <BOB.92Nov3145722@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
  11. Reply-To: Jim.Rees@umich.edu
  12. NNTP-Posting-Host: pisa.citi.umich.edu
  13.  
  14. In article <BOB.92Nov3145722@volitans.MorningStar.Com>, bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
  15.  
  16.   Since
  17.   0xff is outside the range that can be negotiated using the LCP
  18.   Async-Control-Character-Map mechanism, some special means must be
  19.   exercised to keep it from being a part of the user data stream.
  20.  
  21. Surely you're not serious.  The ppp folks provided an escape mechanism for
  22. characters that can't be sent transparently, then limited the scope of that
  23. mechanism?  That seems seriously stupid to me.  What could they possibly
  24. have been thinking?
  25.