Re: ns-2.0 released

[Brian Petry <bpetry@priacc.com>]

What's the status of CSMA/CD support?

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> Ns-2.0 has been released.  Instructions for getting and building ns
> are at <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-build.html>.
> 
> 
> WHAT'S NS?
> ----------
> 
> Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research.
> It provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and
> multicast protocols.
> 
> Ns began as a variant of the REAL network simulator in 1989 and has
> evolved substantially over the past few years.  The ns development
> effort is now an ongoing collaboration with the VINT project.
> 
> 
> WHAT'S NEW IN 2.0?
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> 
> This version is the first non-beta release of ns-2.0.
> By non-beta, we mean that it (nearly) completely subsumes ns-1
> in functionality and has substantial documentation.
> Ns includes:
> 
> 
> - an accurate (although not necessarily complete :-) man page
> 
> - substantial additional documentation based on a SIGCOMM '97 tutorial
>     (available at <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-documentation.html>,
>     new since 2.0b17)
> 
> - complete ns-1 functionality
>     (although some changes to ns-1 have not necessarily been ported to
>     in ns-2, see <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-1-2.html>)
> 
> - substantial new functionality (compared to ns-1)
>     (multi-path routing, RTP, additional scheduling algorithms,
>     SRM, ``centralized multicast'', link-layer, MAC, and shared
>     channel modules for mobile hosts)
> 
> - backwards compatibility with ns-1 scripts
>     (with some small exceptions, see
>     <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns.html>)
> 
> 
> Ns-2.0 is available from
> <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-build.html>
> and requires TclCL-1.0b3 (also available there),
> Tcl-7.6 and otcl-0.96.
> 
> 
>     - the ns developers
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