Re: Bad FCS flag

David Young <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:25:24PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry I haven't actually updated my proposal, had other stuff.
> 
> Here's a representation of the non-conflict we're running into with RX
> flags:
> 
>  * wireshark defines that bit 6 in field 1 ("flags") means "bad FCS".

Johannes,

TCPDump uses this bit, too.  I think that we are stuck with it.

>  * the unofficial RX-flags stuff defines that bit 0 in "RX flags" means
>    "bad FCS"

Any users of this bit?

I think that TCPDump & Wireshark probably out-number the radiotap
interpreters who use the rx-flags bit :-), but I don't know how many
drivers there are who write headers with "bad FCS" in the rx flags bit.

Dave

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