> PPP's escape character is '~', and any occurences of this character > must be escaped. So, to double the effectiveness of a ping flood, > pings can be filled with a tilde. DoS Note that this only applies to asynchronous HDLC like encapsulation for PPP. With true HDLC, this attack will still do damage, but only to the tune of a 12.5% degradation. So it rarely has any effect except on the network edge where you might find a modem. -Phil
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