Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] question regarding protocol dissector as plugin underethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 02:09:56 -0700
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:32:55AM +0200, Tomas Kukosa wrote:
>   ieee80211_handle = find_dissector("wlan");
>   /* look into packet-ieee80211.c which dissector you need ("wlan",
> "wlan_fixed", "wlan_bsfc")*/

He probably wants "wlan".  "wlan_fixed" was put in because I was under
the impression that some system's "802.11 with extra information"
headers would have 802.11 headers that were padded out to a fixed
length, but I've not seen that yet; "wlan_bsfc" is for frames with a
byte-swapped frame control field, as apparently show up in LWAPP frames
from some vendors.