Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] tvbuff questions and conclusions...

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> So masking out the uppermost bit by ANDing with 0x7F is the right thing
> to do to get the rate;

Done.  The 802.11 dissector no longer tries to modify the stuff pointed
to by the result of "tvb_get_ptr()".

> for some frames, we might also want to indicate
> whether the rate belongs to the BSSBasicRateSet or not.

It also currently does so, for all frames, by putting a "(B)" after the
rate.