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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] 802.11 frame data not decoded

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:46:42 +0200

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:55:14PM -0400, Steve Magoun wrote:
> My network does use WEP, but I have Kismet configured to decrypt  
> traffic on the fly. As you can see from the packet dump, the data is  
> indeed unencrypted by the time it gets to Wireshark. Just in case I  
> tried adding the WEP key to Wireshark but that didn't help. Neither  
> did setting the "Ignore WEP Flag" option (although the Ignore WEP  
> Flag option did result in a Logical-Link Control entry in the packet  
> details pane, the rest of the data section wasn't decoded).

Can you please open a bug for this at bugs.wireshark.org and include
a binary capture file in addition to the stuff you sent in your mails
so far? I regard the behaviour of Wireshark as a bug and would a) be
able to reproduce it myself and b) fix it ;)

Thanks!
      Joerg
-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.

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