Hi folks, I am almost finished a dissector for the IEEE1905 Multi-AP technical specification draft from August 2017. The work was done for an organization in the industry. It is pretty complete and has undergone testing with real traffic.
Unfortunately, they make references to elements in IEEE802.11 2016. One specific item is 9.4.2.22.7 Beacon Reports from IEEE802.11 2016. There is another such reference as well. These raise problems: 1. I don't want to duplicate code 2. The code in the current packet-ieee80211.c dissector is incomplete WRT the 2016 version of the spec. (Eg, it does not handle Vendor specific or Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch optional sub-elements.) 3. The references in IEE1905 are to the underlying structures not the tagged structures. 4. The code in packet-ieee80211.c is declared static so I can't call it if I wanted to. We have mechanisms for dealing with this. One is dissector tables. Another is to declare certain functions non-static and put the definitions in header files. There might be others. Are there any suggestions? -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
