Version

Always 1. No version 2 has ever been defined.

Reading a capture

Twenty years of security amendments — TKIP, CCMP, GCMP, SAE, and the whole of WPA3 — arrived without this number changing once. The extension points that actually carried them are the suite selectors below, which is worth noticing about how protocols really evolve.

Where it sits

RSN > Version

• Open in the explorer — Association Request
• Open in the explorer — Probe Response

Accuracy

Clause

802.11-2024 §9.4.2.24

Byte order

little-endian — least significant octet first

Verified

Not verified against the standard. Treat this as a claim, not a fact.