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 >>> >>> -- >>> 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 -- Esteban _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
