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From: Guy Harris <guy-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
To: Richard Sharpe
	<realrichardsharpe-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: radiotap-S783fYmB3Ccdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:34:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1606812C-649C-4C06-ABE0-AE2F4474BCD0@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38F46E1D-1C4A-48DC-A906-9522006E8474-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>


On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Guy Harris <guy-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From the *radiotap* point of view, I would say that the last field is incorrect because the page for the MCS field on the radiotap site says:
> 
> 	The mcs field indicates the MCS rate index as in IEEE_802.11n-2009.
> 
> which, if we update it to say "as in Clause 20 of IEEE 802.11-2012", means it has values from 0 to 76, with modulations different from the ones in 11ad's Clause 21, i.e. the radiotap MCS field is *not* appropriate for 11ad.

For what it's worth, it appears that the wil6210 driver:

	https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/wil6210

uses the MCS field and its mcs value for 11ad.  It can also be configured to supply raw "PHY data" with a vendor-namespace field.

So code that processes radiotap headers, such as Wireshark's radiotap-header dissector, will have to interpret packets with an MCS field and a channel frequence in the 11ad range as being 11ad packets, and treat the mcs value in the MCS field as an 11ad MCS, not an 11n MCS.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-22 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-22 19:41 Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad Richard Sharpe
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2015-08-22 20:59   ` Guy Harris
     [not found]     ` <38F46E1D-1C4A-48DC-A906-9522006E8474-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-22 22:06       ` Richard Sharpe
     [not found]         ` <CACyXjPx81fh_jeQSUjE-_w8NQ_Jr-ajmnVWSopfzcLPOWoGmGg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-22 22:24           ` Guy Harris
2015-08-22 23:34       ` Guy Harris [this message]
     [not found]         ` <1606812C-649C-4C06-ABE0-AE2F4474BCD0-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-24  7:40           ` Johannes Berg
     [not found]             ` <1440402013.3735.1.camel-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-24 16:21               ` Richard Sharpe
     [not found]                 ` <CACyXjPwSZPV+U_=zQpDBpeBnhMntzEFhyJnBOw3-N8qPfyHc1A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-24 16:28                   ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-26 22:59                   ` Simon Barber
     [not found]                     ` <55DE44EB.6080603-vp0mx6+5gkqFX2APIN6yfw@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-27  1:17                       ` Guy Harris
     [not found]                         ` <126B842D-05EA-4510-BC9B-DB1A4AABEC12-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-10 18:25                           ` Guy Harris
     [not found]                             ` <1135A126-6A5A-4C84-A52D-13C0387609CC-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-17 16:37                               ` Johannes Berg
2019-12-10 23:51                                 ` Guy Harris
2019-12-11  8:32                                   ` Johannes Berg
2019-12-11  9:39                                     ` Krishna Chaitanya
2019-12-11 12:57                                       ` Johannes Berg
2019-12-11 13:20                                         ` Krishna Chaitanya
2019-12-20 21:56                                     ` Guy Harris
2015-09-17 16:32                       ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-26 22:56       ` Simon Barber

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