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List:       wireshark-dev
Subject:    Re: [Wireshark-dev] radiotap_info
From:       Guy Harris <guy () alum ! mit ! edu>
Date:       2016-01-06 1:19:33
Message-ID: B3AAB866-36B6-4F24-8B81-EA7C5C56C008 () alum ! mit ! edu
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On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Simon Barber <simon.barber@meraki.net> wrote:

> Is this used by anyone? I don't see any reference to it. Any reason I can't remove \
> it?

It's used by listeners for the "radiotap" tap.

There are no listeners for that tap in the Wireshark source; the only listeners out \
there would either be plugins or versions in private/forked versions of Wireshark.

If it were to be replaced by a tap that, for example, passes on the struct \
ieee_802_11_phdr structure - or if the "wlan" tap were to be changed to pass that \
structure on - that would be an improvement, as, instead of a tap that can only \
handle radiotap, there would be taps that could handle *any* radio header, as long as \
it can handle not getting all the radio information it wants.

So if that's your plan - replacing the "radiotap" tap with a generic "802.11 radio \
information" tap, or adding the generic 802.11 radio information to the "plan" tap - \
go for it. ___________________________________________________________________________
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