Re: phase effects

[Sally Floyd <floyd@ee.lbl.gov>]

>I am doing some simple tests with ns2.0b17 and the results I got are kind
>of weird...
...
>The problem is that only the
>second connection seems to lose packets. 

This is several months late, and is most likely no longer be relevant.
But I would guess that you are seeing a variant of phase effects.
I would refer you to the papers below.

- Sally

Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., On Traffic Phase Effects in Packet-Switched
Gateways.
Internetworking: Research and Experience, V.3 N.3, September 1992,
p.115-156.  URL ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/phase.ps.Z

Floyd, S., Simulator Tests. July 1995.
URL ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/simtests.ps.Z