Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] LWAPP Dissector

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 1:10 PM, David Frascone wrote:

> Attached is a patch file and source file for a dissector for LWAPP
> (Light Weight Access Point Protocol).  It is currently chartering in 
> the
> IETF.

Checked in.

> Also, I'm resubmitting my 802.11 patch to add a flag (preference) to
> swap the word on the frame control register.  Some atheros chipsets 
> send
> those over lwapp with the bytes swapped.  I'm not sure why it happens,
> but since it's been going on for over a year, I don't think it's going
> to get fixed any time soon,

So I presume that either

	1) LWAPP traffic goes only between access points and access routers 
neither of which swap the word, or between access points and access 
routers both of which swap the word;

	2) there would be interoperability problems between access points and 
access routers where one swaps the word and the other doesn't;

	3) there's some form of magic done by access points and/or access 
routers to cope with that "feature".