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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1812] Radiotap dissector out of sync with the current spec

Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:21:07 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1812





------- Comment #3 from guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx  2007-08-31 19:21 GMT -------
No, and no.  The interpretation of a Radiotap file should *not* be dependent on
the OS on which you're running Wireshark!

IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_XCHANNEL was moved to 18 when I mentioned this problem to
David Young and Sam Leffler.  IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_FCS was, as far as I know,
never used.

I'm working on the one remaining issue, namely collisions between some OpenBSD
bits and bits used in other OSes.  Hopefully we can come up with a standard
that all OSes can adopt and continue to adhere to.  If not, we might have to
define multiple DLT_ values for different flavors of radiotap; that wouldn't be
the ideal, but at least it'd mean that a file capture on one OS could be
interpreted by Wiretap (or tcpdump, or...) running on *any* OS.


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