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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] help needed about sniffing on WLAN

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:43:22 -0700
Martijn Schipper wrote:
No, I mean all 802.11 frames are encapsulated in 802.3 frames by our firmware.

Including management frames? 802.3 frames don't have any way of indicating 802.11 management frames - it looks, from a patch somebody sent us a while ago (that's now checked in) as if some Windows driver for some 802.11 adapter in Centrino systems, or the firmware for that adapter, puts management frames into 802.3 frames with a special Ethernet type value.