[Olsr-users] OLSRv2: How do I 'traceroute' in an olsr2 mesh?

[Henning Rogge]

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Bernd Naumann <(spam-protected)> wrote:
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> Is my conclusion correct, that olsr2 is due the loopback wizardry a
> layer2mesh?

No, olsrd2 just sets IP routes as olsrd1.

> But then, how do I traceroute a path? Or is there a olsr2 build in I
> have missed, to see over which hop(s) traffic flows?

I just tested this on my local machine, both tracepath, tracepath6 and
traceroute6 work well. "traceroute" has not been available on
Debian/Ubuntu for a number of years.

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> I was now able to build a 3 node mesh. 3 nodes in a line:
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>   A <--> B <--> C
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> A does not see C, so traffic have to go over B, but classic
> `traceroute` shows a direkt link / 1 hop).
> */

can you post the command you run and the output?

Henning