Re: Missing Rate information

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:22:50 +0200
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 08:10 -0400, Doug Clements wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm trying to hunt down why some wifi frames captured by tshark are
> missing Rate information. Rate: False is set in the header for a
> portion of frames that I'm getting, but not all. Furthermore, it's
> only on one channel on my network, so I'm sure it's some specific
> device or packet type that isn't getting processed correctly. At first
> I thought maybe they were MCS frames so the Rate would show up in
> those fields, but that does not appear to be the case.

It might have been useful to say what is *generating* those frames,
but ...


>     Present flags: 0x0008482b

This indicates there's MCS information, so you just need to upgrade
wireshark.

johannes