On 2012/09/08, at 14:52, LEO Airwarosu Yoichi Shinoda wrote: >> Is there any way to collect information about all nodes in the network? > > I don't think so.
There is an exception. If you have a node announcing a root in a proper mode, then mpath dump on *THAT* node will show entries for all mesh points. --- shinoda On 2012/09/08, at 14:52, LEO Airwarosu Yoichi Shinoda wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
