Re: radiotap_info

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Simon Barber <simon.barber () meraki net> wrote:

> Is this used by anyone? I don't see any reference to it. Any reason I can't remove it?

It's used by listeners for the "radiotap" tap.

There are no listeners for that tap in the Wireshark source; the only listeners out there would either be plugins or 
versions in private/forked versions of Wireshark.

If it were to be replaced by a tap that, for example, passes on the struct ieee_802_11_phdr structure - or if the 
"wlan" tap were to be changed to pass that structure on - that would be an improvement, as, instead of a tap that can 
only handle radiotap, there would be taps that could handle *any* radio header, as long as it can handle not getting 
all the radio information it wants.

So if that's your plan - replacing the "radiotap" tap with a generic "802.11 radio information" tap, or adding the 
generic 802.11 radio information to the "plan" tap - go for it.
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