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List:       tcpdump-workers
Subject:    Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers
From:       Guy Harris <guy () alum ! mit ! edu>
Date:       2005-07-26 20:57:15
Message-ID: 42E6A3AB.2060802 () alum ! mit ! edu
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Mike Kershaw wrote:

> I've been developing a database of cards based on the iwpriv
> fingerprints.  So far, the method seems to be sound.  I hope to use that
> to map sources automatically inside Kismet to the kismet 'specialty'
> sources.  As drivers evolve, I should only need one standard source
> under linux, which I would hope is controled via siocsiwmode, reports
> radiotap, and properly fills in the FCS bit in the rt header.

And then we need to generalize the "FCS bit" so that it uses a generic 
mechanism; at least on some BSDs (including OS X), some Ethernet drivers 
supply an FCS (except, of course, for outgoing packets, so BPF needs a 
way to supply a direction flag).
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