>> First thing that strikes me, do you have "asyncmap 0" in your
>> /etc/ppp/options? You NEED it.
>
>You might tell him why it's needed. :)
>
>I can't think why a bad asyncmap setting could cause any problem, except
>to slow the connection down. "asyncmap 0" causes your PPP connection to
>allow any and all control characters, rather than escaping them, which
>causes more data to be sent on average.
In addition to this, if the user is lucky enough to have a "+++ATH" or
a PPPd shutdown sequence somehow encoded into the MIME attachment, that
will nail the user too.
--David
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