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Hey all you guys!!

I have a little queston. I'm lurning the cwap on CommView for Wi-Fi. I printed a Managment frame to keep something inhand through the day. And saw that the under the MAC header - Band:802.11g. Now I have a cisco 350 AP. It's not "g". The only "g" in the network is the card in my laptop. Linksys A-G. YOu think the card is seeing the 2462 MHz and just added it into the frame?? The card is backward conp with "b"!! As it works with the AP. LEt me put this in here:
Packet #1, Direction: Pass-through, Time:15:44:04.146287, Size: 91
Wireless MAC header
Signal level: 0x3C (60)
Rate: 1.0 Mbps
Band: 802.11g
Channel: 11 - 2462 MHz
802.11
Frame Control: 0x0080 (128)
Protocol version: 0
To DS: 0
From DS: 0
More Fragments: 0
Retry: 0
Power Management: 0
More Data: 0
WEP: 0
Order: 0
Type: 0 - Management
Subtype: 8 - Beacon
Duration: 0x0000 (0)
Destination Address: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Source Address: 00:40:96:40:A1:9A
BSS ID: 00:40:96:40:A1:9A
Fragment Number: 0x0000 (0)
Sequence Number: 0x0446 (1094)
Beacon
Timestamp: 2411277.824428 sec
Beacon Interval: 0x0064 (100) - 100 msec
Capability Information: 0x0031 (49)
ESS: 1
IBSS: 0
CF-Pollable: 0
CF-Poll Request: 0
Privacy: 1
Short Preamble: 1
PBCC: 0
Channel Agility: 0
SSID
Supported rates
1 Mbps
2 Mbps
5.5 Mbps
11 Mbps
Current Channel: 11 - 2462 MHz
TIM
DTIM Count: 1
DTIM Period: 2
Bitmap Control: 0x00 (0)
Traffic Indicator: 0
Bitmap Offset: 0
Partial Virtual Bitmap: 00
Reserved
Raw Data:
0x0000 80 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF-FF FF 00 40 96 40 A1 9A ?¡é????...????????????????????????.@?¡é?€?¡°@?????¡­??
0x0010 00 40 96 40 A1 9A 60 44-AC B1 5B 6B 31 02 00 00 .@?¡é?€?¡°@?????¡­??`D???????¡À[k1...
0x0020 64 00 31 00 00 06 00 00-00 00 00 00 01 04 82 84 d.1...........?¡é?€???¡é?€??
0x0030 8B 96 03 01 0B 05 04 01-02 00 00 85 1E 02 00 4C ?¡é?€?1?¡é?€?¡°.........?¡é?€?|...L
0x0040 0D 07 00 FF 00 11 00 41-50 33 35 30 2D 34 30 61 ...????...AP350-40a
0x0050 31 39 61 00 00 00 00 01-00 00 22 19a......."

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It also looks like you can almost see all the info right in the RAW Data: YOu see the all F's and mac add's.

Thanks again guys!! And keep working to it!! All of you!!

Phil
CWNA

Don't take my word as gold but I think this is done only to show that this is 2.4 GHz frequency band not the 5.4 GHz frequency band. G is backward compatible with B, so when they did this they just used G standards since it does basically the same thing as B except with the modulation of OFDM opposed to CCK.

I hope this helps.

Cool... That's what I was thinking. I just have a hard time thinking alittle wider than what I'm lurning :) That's what I saw. that was all I could think about. Thanks compughter!!

Phil