Thanks for the clarification

2012/9/8 LEO Airwarosu Yoichi Shinoda <[email protected]>:
>
> 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
>>>
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