Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Dissector for decoding WiMax MAC protocol

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> I assume the WiMax MAC protocol is such a protocol.

It appears to be one.

(By the way, is WiMax, to a first order of approximation, "DOCSIS with  
radio instead of cables"?)

> If so, then, in
> order to handle it in Wireshark, we'd have to add code in the Wiretap
> library to recognize it in some capture file format that supports it -
> and if the format you want for it is the native libpcap format, you'd
> have to send mail to tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxx to request a link-
> layer type value for WiMax.

So do you want to be able to capture WiMax traffic with Wireshark, or  
just to read existing capture files?

If you want to capture WiMax traffic with Wireshark, you'll need to  
arrange that, on at least one OS that Wireshark supports, you can use  
libpcap to capture WiMax traffic.  That would mean you'd need to ask tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxx 
 for a link-layer type for WiMax.

If you just want to read existing capture files, what file format are  
those capture files in?