Re: MCS field: RFA

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:36 +0000, Bill Stafford wrote:

> Omitting the Rate field seems like the most logical, but does not
> help out legacy parsers.

I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced we should try to define this, some
implementations might not want to have a rate table for MCS rates, for
example.

> But on the upside, it is helpful for wireshark
> filters like "radiotap.datarate < 48" when you are trying to see
> any traffic that falls below 24 Mbps for example.

That would exclude any packets w/o the rate field as well, because of
the way filters work when fields are not present.

johannes
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