HostAP traceroute

Thomas Rulmont thomas at nexus-informatique.com
Fri Sep 5 07:17:47 EDT 2003


Yes, because AP operates at TCP/IP layer2, while traceroute operates at
layer 3, thus do not see the AP.
The AP is a bridge, so, it is as invisible for upper layers as switches are.

>
> 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.
>
>
>
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