Re: Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad

Guy Harris <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:56:16 -0800
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 11, 2019, at 12:32 AM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 15:51 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Reviving an old thread :-)

Yes - it came up with the Wireshark bug in question.

>> But a presumably-Linux system does appear to use it; see Wireshark bug
>> 
>> 	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16272
>> 
>> For now, I'll throw a hack into Wireshark to treat a signal >= 60 GHz
>> as meaning 11ad, 
> 
> I don't think that's quite right - you'll need to do something like >=
> 56 GHz.

Yes - there's a macro in Wireshark to test whether a frequency is in the 11ad range; it was testing for frequencies between 57 and 66 GHz.  I changed the code to use that.

I also changed it to test for 57 to 71 GHz; apparently, some regulatory domains have added (US) or may add (Canada, EU) more frequencies to the range allowed.