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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1032] Incorrect packet analysis of outgoing wifi broadcast

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From: bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:22:36 +0000 (GMT)

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1032





------- Comment #3 from guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx  2006-08-06 11:22 GMT -------
If Ethereal analyzes that packet as an 802.11 packet rather than as an Ethernet
packet, it's probably because libpcap, when asked what type of link-layer
headers the capture has, indicates that it has 802.11 headers.  If so, that's
probably because the kernel, when asked what type of link-layer headers the
capture socket provides, indicated that it has 802.11 headers.

I.e., this is probably a bug in the Linux kernel or RaTech driver on your
system.

Run tcpdump with the "-h" flag; then, try capturing with tcpdump on the same
device you tried Wireshark on.  If it has the same problem, this is almost
certainly a kernel or driver bug.


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