I agree. This seems to be more of this particular L2TP implementation's
problem then an ethereal problem. My bad :)
Thanks,
Irfan
If my reading of the L2TP spec is correct, then
1) those 0x7e's were in the packet by error if they were framing
bytes
and
2) calling the PPP in HDLC-like framing dissector would work.
Note that the ppp_hdlc dissector assumes that Somebody Else has dealt
with framing and escape bytes, which is the case for, for example:
libpcap captures on systems with BPF, as the PPP code hands
incoming packets to BPF *after* processing them and hands
outgoing packets to BPF *before* inserting framing and escape
bytes;
Sniffer, etc. captures, where it also appears to process framing
and escape bytes before putting packets into the capture file;
pppdump captures, as the pppdump-capture-reading code processes
the framing and escape bytes.
