Re: HE (11ax) extensions

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:39:08 +0100
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 11:33 -0800, Simon Barber wrote:
> For HT and VHT one of the things that is missing is the total length
> of aggregates (including padding) - it’s in the L-SIG header, would
> be nice to have it exposed (since most chipsets pass up everything
> that’s in the header).

I don't know about "most", but I know ours doesn't :-)

> Also some standardized way to put aggregates back together. My latest
> wireshark extension uses same TSF as that clue.
> See https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/20043/

We already have that, in the A-MPDU status field there's a reference
number that's supposed to be constant within the same A-MPDU and change
between consecutive A-MPDUs.

johannes