On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 22:58 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2008 22:58:59 Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote: > > Padding the 802.11 header to a multiple of 4 bytes needs to be done only > > for DATA frames. > > Uhm, can you explain _why_ it's only needed for data frames? Well, it's only _needed_ for data frames because the alignment is something the IP stack needs. That doesn't answer the question, of course, the answer to that would have to be something like "because the hardware uses the same algorithm to insert the padding" johannes
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