Hi Panos,
The reference table you speak of is formally contained within the IEEE
802.11 Standard. There may be some wireshark code you can look at,
however, that may map all the type/subtypes out as well. Perhaps
someone on this mailing list can point you to that place, I don't know
where it is.
I don't have a good answer to your second question, however I can
answer the third. Probe Requests & Responses are a generic way for
802.11 devices to exchange information. They are packed with
information elements which can show security configurations, supported
rates, 11n capabilities, proprietary information, etc. They are often
used when an 802.11 device is in "Active Scanning" mode, to find out
information about all local basic service sets.
-Anthony
On 05/14/2010 07:13 AM, Panagiotis Georgopoulos wrote:
Hello Antony and Guy,
On May 13, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Anthony Murabito wrote:
Hi Panos,
wlan.fc.type_subtype != 0x04 && wlan.fc.type_subtype != 0x05
I.e., 802.11 probe packets don't contain the phrase "probe request" or
"probe response"; those strings are contained, instead, in Wireshark
and TShark (or, rather, in the library that both of them use to dissect
packets), and they use them when displaying the packet summary and
details. What the probe request and response packets contain (along
with all other 802.11 packets) are a type and subtype field, with
particular values for particular packet types, and what you need to
check for are those packet types.
Thank you both very much for your replies, they were really helpful! Antony
provided a solution to the problem and Guy an explanation;-)
I get this know, however :
a) is there a reference table somewhere that describes these values
e.g. that 0x04 is probe request and 0x05 is probe reply?
b) is there a way to instruct Wireshark to filter based on the info
it presents in the info field for a packet? (which is what the user sees, so
IMHO it makes much more sense)
c) although this goes beyond the scope of this list, what are these
probe request and response 802.11 packets exactly? I was not seeing them in
previous tests, why did they appear now?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Panos
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