Re: 802.11 frame control

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

On Nov 13, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Ibrahim wrote:

> According to the IEEE Std 802.11-2007
> it's :
>    - 2 bits version
>    - 2 bits type
>    - 4 bits sub type
>    - 8 bits for 8 flags
> when I was comparing my result to wireshark , I noticed the following problem
> fc is  0x0080 as unsigned short int
> and on wireshark data stream packet it's 80 00
> no problem but  wireshark dissect it  as follows
> version 0
> type 0
> subtype 8
> flags  are all 0s
> so it was used as 0x0800
> is this correct and if yes why the left bytes is inverted ?

See the answer to the StackOverflow version of the question:

        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8111182/c-pcap-802-11-header

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