nRFSniffer occasionally reports malformed data

[Roger Clark]

I've noticed that Wireshark seems to occasionally report malformed data. The malformed data seems to happen about 10% of the time and comes from all my smart beacons.

This could be because I'm using the nRF52 DK as the sniffer.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is it normal ?

[Roger Clark]

To answer my own question

I found this thread

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

It looks like the sniffer does not do the normal error detection on the traffic its listening to

Which is interesting, as it implies that the sniffer is using either undocumented SD features or not the normal API calls that a BLE central device would use.

Its a shame that the source to the sniffer isn't public, so that it would be possible to see how it works.

[Petter Myhre]

Thanks for answering. Maybe you could accpept your own answer as well? :)