Ticket #1221 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

Standardise Radiotap FCS Handling

Reported by: scottr Assigned to: scottr
Priority: minor Milestone: version 0.9.4
Component: madwifi: other Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Patch is attached: 1 Pending:

Description

This patch brings Radiotap FCS handling in MadWiFi in line with the Radiotap standard. It has been tested with tcpdump 3.9.4 and wireshark 0.99.3a.

See the mailing list discussion here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.devel/4144

Attachments

madwifi_standardise_radiotap_fcs.patch (3.0 kB) - added by scottr on 03/25/07 03:13:57.
Standardise Radiotap FCS handling
madwifi_standardise_radiotap_fcs_v2.patch (3.0 kB) - added by scottr on 03/25/07 09:49:27.

Change History

03/25/07 03:13:57 changed by scottr

  • attachment madwifi_standardise_radiotap_fcs.patch added.

Standardise Radiotap FCS handling

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 03/25/07 04:04:26 changed by anonymous

the splitting out of FCS was dropped forever ago; the right way to do it is to mark the flags field to indicate whether or not FCS is present in the frame contents.

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 03/25/07 04:10:09 changed by scottr

Replying to anonymous:

the splitting out of FCS was dropped forever ago; the right way to do it is to mark the flags field to indicate whether or not FCS is present in the frame contents.

That's what this patch does.

03/25/07 09:49:27 changed by scottr

  • attachment madwifi_standardise_radiotap_fcs_v2.patch added.

03/25/07 09:50:05 changed by scottr

Fixed a typo in previous patch.

(in reply to: ↑ description ) 03/26/07 00:05:07 changed by scottr

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Committed in r2216

Add/Change #1221 (Standardise Radiotap FCS Handling)