IEEE802.11 technical question

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Tue Aug 3 03:08:43 EDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:03:53PM +0100, Pedro Ramalhais wrote:

> How can i know the size of an IEEE802.11 beacon frame?

How about reading the standard or using a wireless sniffer?

> Is there any info about it's size on the frame header?

That depends on what you mean with frame header.. IEEE 802.11 header
does not include frame length, but the PLCP header before this includes
a field for frame length.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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