Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Got "Radiotap data goes past the end of the radiotap header" for Npcap's radiota

[Yang Luo <hsluoyb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guy, Thanks!

This time it goes right!

However, most information of the radiotap header is zero like below. The most commonly seen TSFT field (I thought) is not there. Although I didn't implement some fields like "Rate" yet, but I still feel it's too blank?

Maybe this is because the underlying network card driver doesn't implement so many 802.11 OOB data, or Npcap's issue?

One of my 802.11 packet's radiotap header is like this:

--------------------------------------------------------

Radiotap Header v0, Length 15

  Header revision: 0

  Header pad: 0

  Header length: 15

  Present flags

  Flags: 0x00

  Channel frequency: 0

  Channel flags: 0x0000

  SSI Signal: -47 dBm

--------------------------------------------------------

The only field with non-zero values is SSI Signal.

sometimes -46 dBm, sometimes -47 dBm, most times is also 0 dBm.

Cheers,

Yang

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:24 AM, Yang Luo <hsluoyb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have added Radiotap header to Windows. Currently only Flags, Channel and Antenna Signal are supported.
>
> The whole header with Radiotap data is 14 bytes:
> 8 bytes header + 1 byte Flags + 4 bytes Channel + 1 byte Antenna Signal.

It should be

        8 bytes header

        1 byte Flags

        1 byte padding, to put the Channel field on a 2-byte boundary

        4 bytes Channel

        1 byte Antenna signal

for a total of 15 bytes.  See the "Alignment in Radiotap" section of

        http://www.radiotap.org

If you add a Rate field after Flags, however, you *wouldn't* put the padding field there, as the Rate field is also 1 byte long, and there's no need for padding after a 1-byte Flags field and a 1-byte Rate field if a Channel field follows the Rate field.
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