Hi Simon, Nice feature, i can great to push on upstream too.
About you question, i think the better solution is the solution 2. Regards, On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Simon Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > A few years ago I wrote an extension for Wireshark that allows 802.11 > frames to be viewed on a zoomable, scrollable timeline in a third pane > added to the main display. > > https://github.com/parc-wifi/wireshark > > I'm now working on updating and revamping that code to support 802.11n and > 802.11ac, and porting it to the new QT UI. > > 802.11n added aggregation as a new feature. Most wireless cards do the > de-aggregation in the hardware, and deliver the individual MPDU frames to > the driver. As a result all the radiotap captures I have seen have multiple > frames in the capture where on the air there was only a single physical > layer aggregate frame (A-MPDU). Since this extension to wireshark is > calculating and exposing physical layer properties (inter frame spaces and > timings) it needs to work with physical layer frames. I have a design > question. Should I > > 1. pre-process the capture files to re-aggregate the MPDUs into single > A-MPDU frames (a single A-MPDU shows up in wireshark as a single packet, > containing multiple 802.11 MPDUs) > or > 2. somehow track the A-MPDUs within wireshark, perhaps using the > 'conversation' feature. (frames show up in the packet list as they do now - > each MPDU is a separate packet in wireshark, and the timeline view needs to > be smart as to how it displays them). > > Simon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe >
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