From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
To: Guy Harris <guy-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>,
Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: radiotap-S783fYmB3Ccdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:40:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440402013.3735.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1606812C-649C-4C06-ABE0-AE2F4474BCD0-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 16:34 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, it appears that the wil6210 driver:
>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/wil6210
>
> uses the MCS field and its mcs value for 11ad. It can also be
> configured to supply raw "PHY data" with a vendor-namespace field.
>
> So code that processes radiotap headers, such as Wireshark's radiotap
> -header dissector, will have to interpret packets with an MCS field
> and a channel frequence in the 11ad range as being 11ad packets, and
> treat the mcs value in the MCS field as an 11ad MCS, not an 11n MCS.
That just seems really lazy though - I think we should rather fix that
driver and define a proper 60G radiotap field.
johannes
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2015-08-22 19:41 Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad Richard Sharpe
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2015-08-22 20:59 ` Guy Harris
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2015-08-22 22:06 ` Richard Sharpe
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2015-08-22 22:24 ` Guy Harris
2015-08-22 23:34 ` Guy Harris
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2015-08-24 7:40 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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2015-08-24 16:21 ` Richard Sharpe
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2015-08-24 16:28 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-26 22:59 ` Simon Barber
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2015-08-27 1:17 ` Guy Harris
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2015-09-10 18:25 ` Guy Harris
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2015-09-17 16:37 ` Johannes Berg
2019-12-10 23:51 ` Guy Harris
2019-12-11 8:32 ` Johannes Berg
2019-12-11 9:39 ` Krishna Chaitanya
2019-12-11 12:57 ` Johannes Berg
2019-12-11 13:20 ` Krishna Chaitanya
2019-12-20 21:56 ` Guy Harris
2015-09-17 16:32 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-26 22:56 ` Simon Barber
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