Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 802.11 patch

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 19:27:27 -0700
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:05:21PM -0700, Carl Miller wrote:
> Hi folks.  We've started using Ethereal as a packet dump viewer in
> conjunction with our own in-house 802.11 sniffer, which we've just
> modified to save dumps in pcap format.  I've noticied several bugs
> in the 802.11 dissection of Ethereal 0.8.18,

The 802.11 dissector has been much modified since 0.8.18 came out - many
of your changes are either already in there (e.g., the removal of the
bit-swapping), and others may not apply to the current dissector.

You might want to get the current CVS version, either with anonymous
CVS:

	http://www.ethereal.com/development.html#anoncvs

or, if, for example, you're behind a firewall that doesn't let CVS
traffic through, from the nightly CVS tarballs:

	http://www.ethereal.com/development.html#snapshots

and try that, applying whatever of your changes still apply.

Note that, when building from CVS, you will need more tools than will be
necessary for building the source from an official release - you'll need
both Perl and Python, and will also need autoconf and automake.