Crate ieee80211

ieee80211-rs

This is a library for reading and writing IEEE 802.11(aka. WiFi) frames. The library doesn’t use allocations and instead of collections, there is heavy use of Iterators. If the library seems like a mess of generics, than that’s absolutely correct. Generics allow us, to make the library comfortable to use.

Parsing

We internally rely on scroll for parsing, which is therefore re-exported. To get started see the examples folder.

Docs

Sometimes the explanation for fields seems like it was ripped strait from the standard, which is exactly what happened here. They maybe slightly altered though. If some doc comments remind you of this, then you’re not alone.

Re-exports

• pub use const_soft_float;
• pub use macro_bits;
• pub use scroll;

Modules

• common
  This is a collection of commonly used types.
• data_frame
  This module contains structs around data frames.
• elements
  This module contains the elements, which are found in the body of some frames. If an element only consists of one struct, like the SSID, they are re-exported, otherwise they get their own module.
• mgmt_frame

Macros

• extended_supported_rates
  Generate an ExtendedSupportedRatesElement.
• rate
  This macro generates an EncodedRate.
• ssid
  Generate an SSID element, while performing all validation at compile time.
• supported_rates
  Generate a SupportedRatesElement.
• supported_rx_mcs_set
  Generate the supported rx MCS set array from the MCS indices at compile time.

Enums

• IEEE80211Frame
  An IEEE 802.11 frame. The variants of this enum corespond to the type specified in the FCF. The TryIntoCtx implementation for this takes a bool as Ctx, which specifies if the fcs is at the end.

Traits

• ToFrame