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-rw-r--r--gatchat/ppp_cp.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gatchat/ppp_cp.c b/gatchat/ppp_cp.c
index 8cbb64f4..6cd36817 100644
--- a/gatchat/ppp_cp.c
+++ b/gatchat/ppp_cp.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ static void pppcp_send_echo_reply(struct pppcp_data *data,
*/
packet->identifier = header->identifier;
- /* magic number? */
+ /* magic number will always be zero */
ppp_transmit(data->ppp, pppcp_to_ppp_packet(packet),
ntohs(packet->length));
@@ -860,6 +860,12 @@ static guint8 pppcp_process_protocol_reject(struct pppcp_data *data,
return RXJ_MINUS;
}
+/*
+ * For Echo-Request, Echo-Reply, and Discard-Request, we will not
+ * bother checking the magic number of the packet, because we will
+ * never send an echo or discard request. We can't reliably detect
+ * loop back anyway, since we don't negotiate a magic number.
+ */
static guint8 pppcp_process_echo_request(struct pppcp_data *data,
struct pppcp_packet *packet)
{