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<p><font size=3 color=blue face="Palatino Linotype"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype";color:blue'>Please let me know if you
will have time to dig into these problems or if I should try</span></font> <font
color=blue face="Palatino Linotype"><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype";
color:blue'>and</span></font> <font color=blue face="Palatino Linotype"><span
style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype";color:blue'>resolve them myself and
provide patches.</span></font> </p>

<p><font size=3 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype";color:navy'>I will not be able to look
at this until early next week (with IDF running this week), but I will try to
do so.  Note that the current implementation of the RMPP code ignores the
payload length on the receive side, and instead relies on the last bit to
determine the end of a transfer.  So, it wouldn’t surprise me if the
receive side accepted an invalid RMPP MAD.</span></font></p>

<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>- Sean</span></font></p>

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