Re: [RFA] HT extensions

David Young <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:27:43PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 13:21 -0500, David Young wrote:
> > How can an application use the first/last-frame information?
> 
> Well, right now my wireshark patch is simply displaying it, but it could
> also link up frames of an a-MPDU so you can jump between them, and with
> this it can know what the framing was. If you just know a frame was part
> of an aMPDU you won't know which one, this should help.

I have my doubts about that.  How do you distinguish the case where the
NIC gives you the first MPDU of A-MPDU 1 and the last MPDU of A-MPDU 2
from the case where the NIC gives you the first and last MPDU of the
same A-MPDU?

Dave

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