Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11318] wlan 802.11 packets aren't always tapped
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 21:03:20 +0000

Comment # 5 on bug 11318 from 
(In reply to Pascal Quantin from comment #4)
> A Git blame indicates that this is like this since the initial commit of the
> tap.
> Given the stats computed in the WLAN Statistics menu (not ported to Qt GUI
> yet) it seems to be on purpose: only data and management packets are
> presented to the user. Other low level control packets like RTS/CTS, Block
> Ack, ... are ignored.

Then either the tap should be renamed to indicate that it's *not* a general tap
for WLAN packets, or the tap should be changed to deliver control packets and
the WLAN Statistics listener should be changed to ignore those packets if
appropriate.

(I'd vote for the second of those.)

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