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Re: Filter out a string using a display filter
From: "Panagiotis Georgopoulos" <panos () comp lancs ac uk>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:13:05 +0100
Hello Antony and Guy,
On May 13, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Anthony Murabito wrote:Hi Panos, wlan.fc.type_subtype != 0x04 && wlan.fc.type_subtype != 0x05I.e., 802.11 probe packets don't contain the phrase "probe request" or "probe response"; those strings are contained, instead, in Wireshark and TShark (or, rather, in the library that both of them use to dissect packets), and they use them when displaying the packet summary and details. What the probe request and response packets contain (along with all other 802.11 packets) are a type and subtype field, with particular values for particular packet types, and what you need to check for are those packet types.
Thank you both very much for your replies, they were really helpful! Antony provided a solution to the problem and Guy an explanation;-) I get this know, however : a) is there a reference table somewhere that describes these values e.g. that 0x04 is probe request and 0x05 is probe reply? b) is there a way to instruct Wireshark to filter based on the info it presents in the info field for a packet? (which is what the user sees, so IMHO it makes much more sense) c) although this goes beyond the scope of this list, what are these probe request and response 802.11 packets exactly? I was not seeing them in previous tests, why did they appear now? Thanks a lot in advance, Panos ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Filter out a string using a display filter Panagiotis Georgopoulos (May 13)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Anthony Murabito (May 13)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Guy Harris (May 13)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Panagiotis Georgopoulos (May 14)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Anthony Murabito (May 14)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter j.snelders (May 14)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Wes (May 14)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Guy Harris (May 14)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Guy Harris (May 13)
- Re: Filter out a string using a display filter Anthony Murabito (May 13)