Re: Capture filters for wlan

[G Capps <vkcapps () gmail com>]

Thank you, Guy!

> > On Jul 3, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> >
> > > I'll look at making "wlan ra" and "wlan ta" aliases for "wlan addr1"
> > and "wlan addr2"; that's relatively straightforward.
> >
> > I've checked into the libpcap main and 1.1 branches changes to
> > implement "wlan ra" and "wlan ta"; they're not quite aliases (TA and
> > RA aren't in management frames; the 802.11 spec says addr1 and
> > addr2 are DA and SA, respectively).
> >
> > When that'll appear in any OS releases depends on when the next
> > libpcap release comes out and when it gets picked up by various
> > OSes.
> >
> > > (BTW, this also found a bug wherein saying "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}" on
> > anything other than a device returning 802.11 headers will crash the
> > application using libpcap/WinPcap; that bug is in all versions of
> > libpcap/WinPcap that support "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}".)
> >
> > I've also checked into those branches a fix for that bug.
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