On Jul 29, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:

> The hardware that is leaving the FCS on encapsulates them as Ethernet
> frames with an Ethertype of 0x809a.

OK, so these *aren't* native 802.15.4 captures, in the sense that the 
link-layer header at the beginning of the raw frame data isn't an 802.15.4 
header, it's an Ethernet header.

In that case, the WTAP_ENCAP_ values are completely irrelevant; the WTAP_ENCAP_ 
value for the packets in question is, and should be, WTAP_ENCAP_ETHERNET.  
Don't even bother defining WTAP_ENCAP_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS.

So what does the hardware that *doesn't* include the FCS use?  Is it 
encapsulating them inside Ethernet frames?  If so, what Ethernet type does it 
use?  Does it also use 0x809a?  If so, could it choose a different Ethertype, 
so that programs that see those frames can automatically determine whether 
there's an FCS or not?
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