Esteban, > mpath dump shows all the nodes of the mesh network, or only the nodes > that the station can see directly?
I'm a beginner, but found so far that the original mpath dump shows entries for: (1) directly reachable nodes (2) announced root if any (3) announced gate if any (4) dynamically resolved nodes (in a mesh) My patched iw; http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02071.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02076.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02072.html shows entries for (5) proxy'ed nodes behind gates also. > Is there any way to collect information about all nodes in the network? I don't think so. > How could I see how many nodes there is in the network?Maybe with a script? I believe that there is no easy way of enumerating all nodes in a mesh using layer 2 facilities only. My guess is that we can make a small program that listens to broadcasted frames transmitted by nodes in a layer 2 network from time to time. This will probably capture most nodes running actively transmitting IP based programs because they need to broadcast ARPs, but not inherently silent nodes. Another small program on all nodes in a network that periodically broadcast heartbeat(?) frames may help the first program to find more nodes. The latter program can be as simple as pinging an arbitral node in the overlay IP network (which will broadcast an ARP for that node). --- shinoda On 2012/09/08, at 1:52, Esteban Municio wrote: > Hi list > > One basic but important question: > > mpath dump shows all the nodes of the mesh network, or only the nodes > that the station can see directly? > I'm questioning that because I'm doing tests and the information of > mpath dump is not the same in all stations(diferent number of entrys > in each station) > > Is there any way to collect information about all nodes in the network? > How could I see how many nodes there is in the network?Maybe with a script? > > Thanks! > Regards > > -- > Esteban > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
