Re: The 802.11 dissector is a big hairy ball of wax that needs to be refactored in some way

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

On Jan 3, 2019, at 9:05 AM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com> wrote:

> I am sure that most people who work on the ieee80211 dissector will
> agree that it is a monster that needs taming.
>
> It is currently more than 37,000 lines long

IEEE Std 802.11-2016, section 9. "Frame formats" is about 658 pages;

IEEE Std 802.3-2015, section 3. "Media Access Control (MAC) frame and packet specifications" is about 5 pages.
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