Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 25224: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/:

[Stig Bjørlykke <stig.bjorlykke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5. mai. 2008, at 02.18, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:27:05PM +0000, stig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Log:
> > Added a hidden SSID (wlan_mgt.ssid) to be able to filter on the ssid.
>
> Why do you make this a hidden item? I'm not a big fan of hidden  
> items as
> it makes it almost impossible for the "uninitiated" to know about  
> them.

All tagged parameters are currently added as  
"wlan_mgt.tag.interpretion" and I did not want to add another visible  
entry to display the same value as "Tag interpretation" for SSID.  I  
think we should cleanup the ieee80211 dissector to add uniq abbrevs  
for all tagged parameters.


I will cleanup handling SSID as binary in WLAN Traffic Statistics, as  
the code you are pointing at is used for this.


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Stig Bjørlykke