RE: [RFC] VHT fields

"Alwin Beukers" <alwin-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:41:02 +0000
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <C6E8EE2D6B3ACB4582C1249E834B306508499C@SJEXCHMB13.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
> One question on this:
> 
> "Note: for receive capture, the total bandwidth of the transmitter is
> not generally known, so the bandwidth will only be recorded as 20, 40,
> 80, or 160, with the Channel field indicating the transmission center
> frequency."
> 
> I'm not sure that's generally true, though it points out something that
> we may need to define in more detail: we have (in Linux at least) always
> had the Channel field indicate the control channel, not the transmission
> center frequency.

I think indicating the control channel wouldn't work very well in this case, 
especially for >40MHz bandwidths.

How do you feel about extending [X]Channel with a flag that indicates 
we're specifying transmission center frequency?

Alwin