HostAP traceroute

[Antonio Vilei]

Hello Anand,

> In infrastructure mode, is all the communication between the nodes is via
> Accesspoint ?

Yes.

> I traceroute node2 from node1, and it shows only 1 hop, when i was
> expecting 2 hops.

The frame forwarding among stations is handled by the AP at layer 2, so no
IP (layer 3) routing is required. That's why when you traceroute it shows
just one hop: the two stations are on the same subnet.

Regards,
Antonio


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anand S. Katti" <askatti at ece.iisc.ernet.in>
To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:25 AM
Subject: HostAP traceroute


>
> Hello All,
>
> In infrastructure mode, is all the communication between the nodes is via
> Accesspoint ?. TO cross check this,
> node1----AP-----node2
> |
> |
> node3
> I traceroute node2 from node1, and it shows only 1 hop, when i was
> expecting 2 hops.
>
>
>
> --
> --------------.
> With Regards,
> Anand S. Katti
>
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