RE: [RFC] VHT fields

> On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 17:18 +0000, Alwin Beukers wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback on the 802.11ac fields.
> >
> > If there are no further suggestions, I would like to request the SU_VHT,
> > MU_VHT and
> > PARTIAL_AID fields to be moved to the defined-fields section and have
> > their bit numbers
> > assigned. As the group ID was merged into SU_VHT, the GROUP_ID field
> > can be dropped.
> >
> > With the bit numbers assigned I can deliver the Wireshark patch for parsing
> > these fields.
> 
> Can we also have a producer of the fields? I realise that may be hard to
> do now without a driver? :-)

Yes, that is somewhat of a challenge :-) 

I do have packet captures with the VHT field that could be made available,
although I realize it's not ideal...

Alwin
 
> Please just use the next free bit numbers though, swapping those out
> later will be easy, and that way we can see the code before adopting the
> changes, this helps flush out implementation issues.
> 
> See also http://www.radiotap.org/Standardisation
> 
> johannes
>