All kinds of such (in)famous things has be discussed in rootshell
in the past... and I think searching in securityfocus.com would also
generate much info needed.

maddog


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> 
> There _is_ an S-register, and I strongly suggest using it to turn off
> this "feature," unless you spend a lot of time using something such as a
> terminal emulator where you might need to go into command mode to do
> something.  Your modem is hung up in PPP by dropping DTE, anyway, so
> it's not really needed.  Also, I can say from my own experience that it
> is indeed true that incoming packets containing "+ + +" will force your
> modem into command mode.  I received an e-mail that had been uuencoded,
> and that particular string was contained therein.  Once I set the
> S-register (ATS2=128 is the AT command that does it) to turn off any
> command mode intervention, I was able to receive the e-mail with no more
> problems.  Probably the best way to do this would be to simply put
> "ATS2=128" (might be a different register for a Motorola or other type
> of command set modem) in your PPP init string.
>

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