Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9586] Peekremote dissector needs to handle "new" header as

Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:28:59 +0000

Comment # 20 on bug 9586 from
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > (In reply to comment #2) PLEASE SEE INLINED
> > 
> > > What do the bits in the "flags", "status", and "flagsN" (presumably meaning
> > > "802.11n flags") fields mean?  Without being told that, we cannot dissect
> > > them.
> > > 
> > [emburey]  These 3 are few of the fields that internally represent a
> > combination of certain factors (like control frame indication, WEP,
> > bandwidth range..) of a packet. So a mere binary representation of them
> > should be sufficient.
> 
> Sufficient for those who either don't care what the bits mean or who already
> know what the bits mean, but that's not necessarily the case for all people
> reading these captures.  What do the bits mean?

In the fields 'flags' 'status' 'flagsN', after doing a binary conversion,
please follow the representation of each bits:

field 'flag'
0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1
 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |- Is a Dot11 Control type frame
 |    |    |    |    |    |    |------ Has CRC error
 |    |    |    |    |    |----------- Has frame error
 |    |    |    |    |----------------  -nil-
 |    |    |    |---------------------  -nil-
 |    |    |--------------------------  -nil-   
 |    |-------------------------------  -nil-
 |------------------------------------  -nil-


field 'status'
0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1
 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |-  -nil-
 |    |    |    |    |    |    |------  -nil-
 |    |    |    |    |    |----------- Dot11 WEP
 |    |    |    |    |---------------- With decrypt error
 |    |    |    |---------------------  -nil-
 |    |    |--------------------------  -nil-
 |    |------------------------------- With short preamble
 |------------------------------------  -nil-


field 'flagsN'

(first 23 bits)  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  0/1  
      |           |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    | 
      |           |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |-  802.11ac 20MHz
lower
      |           |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |------  802.11ac 20MHz
upper
      |           |    |    |    |    |    |    |-----------  802.11ac 40MHz
      |           |    |    |    |    |    |----------------  802.11ac HALF GI
      |           |    |    |    |    |---------------------  802.11ac FULL GI
      |           |    |    |    |--------------------------  802.11ac AMPDU
      |           |    |    |-------------------------------  802.11ac AMSDU
      |           |    |------------------------------------  -nil-
      |           |-----------------------------------------  802.11ac future
use
      |-----------------------------------------------------  -nil-


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