Yes, as Thomas said, I use the latest wireshark trunk version with Thomas's
patch and I am able to capture the live Mesh traffic for my embedded system
loaded with latest open80211s implementation.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Pedersen <tho...@cozybit.com> wrote:

> Hey Bishal,
>
> I believe that capture is of an older implementation of 802.11s. The
> current linux implementation is closer to the draft (for example, for a path
> selection frame, the mesh path request tag (68) has been renamed to 130).
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Bishal Thapa <bth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi I tried this patch with svn trunk version r37180 on Ubuntu 10.10 linux
>> kernel version 2.6.38.6 this morning.
>>
>> When I opened the mesh_capture.pcap from
>> http://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=mesh.pcap,
>> it does not parse Mesh Frame Management parameters.
>>
>> I am using the following picture from open80211s.org as the reference and
>> tried to see if I can observe similar parsing, but failed. Could you double
>> check.
>>
>> Reference:
>>
>> http://o11s.org/trac/chrome/site/shots/plink_open-wireshark.png
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Thomas Pedersen" <tho...@cozybit.com>
>> To: devel@lists.open80211s.org
>> Cc: "Bishal Thapa" <bth...@ccs.neu.edu>
>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 2:39:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: Quick question about Wireshark 802.11s support
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>>
>> Here is a work in progress patch for a recent revision of wireshark's svn
>> trunk:
>> http://open80211s.org/trac/attachment/wiki/HOWTO-0.4.0/wireshark-r36532-enable-mesh-dissector.patch.
>>  This patch does not reflect the state of the current draft, but should
>> match the current linux implementation. We hope to get these updates
>> upstream once the draft is ratified.
>>
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Yeoh Chun Yeow < yeohchuny...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Need patch from Thomas to work for latest trunk version.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Javier Cardona < jav...@cozybit.com >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Bishal Thapa < bth...@ccs.neu.edu >
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Javier,
>> > I had a quick question regarding wireshark support for 802.11s (mesh)
>> protocol. Do you know if the recent version of wireshark work without the
>> support of 802.11s patch? I would really appreciate if you could answer this
>> question or point me to a right direction.
>>
>> I'm not sure but you can easily check for your self. There is a mesh
>> traffic capture available here: http://o11s.org/files/mesh_traffic.cap
>>
>> Try to read it with the version of wireshark you are using and see if
>> the traffic is parsed correctly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Javier
>>
>>
>> --
>> Javier Cardona
>> cozybit Inc.
>> http://www.cozybit.com
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