Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] LWAPP Dissector

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:55:14 -0700

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 1:10 PM, David Frascone wrote:


Attached is a patch file and source file for a dissector for LWAPP
(Light Weight Access Point Protocol). It is currently chartering in the 
IETF.


Checked in.


Also, I'm resubmitting my 802.11 patch to add a flag (preference) to
swap the word on the frame control register. Some atheros chipsets send 
those over lwapp with the bytes swapped.  I'm not sure why it happens,
but since it's been going on for over a year, I don't think it's going
to get fixed any time soon,


So I presume that either
1) LWAPP traffic goes only between access points and access routers neither of which swap the word, or between access points and access routers both of which swap the word;
2) there would be interoperability problems between access points and access routers where one swaps the word and the other doesn't;
3) there's some form of magic done by access points and/or access routers to cope with that "feature".