Hi Robert,

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Bouterse, Robert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In the evaluation work I am doing, I need to trace the activities that occur 
> when a node is pinged in a multi-hop mesh. Can anyone explain to me the 
> sequence of events that will occur. I cannot seem to figure it out from my 
> wireshark captures. I see the arp requests go out, and then the icmp echo, 
> but I do not see the responses.

No ICMP response? But the ping works? That seems odd...

The process should be something like this:

A                  B                       C
|                     |
|--ARP_REQ-)|----------------)|
|(--PREQ_A---|(----------------|
|--PREP_A-->|---------------->|
--- PLINK ESTABLISHED --------
|<-ARP_RESP-|<---------------|

Merry xmas!
Thomas

> If anyone can explain, or point me at any non-"membership required" 
> resources, I would very greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Bouterse
> Senior Software Engineer
> Multimedia Development Center
> D&M Holdings Inc.
> http://www.dm-holdings.com
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