nam release

[Satish Kumar <kkumar@ISI.EDU>]

Nam-1.0a2 has been released.  Instructions for getting and building nam
are at <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/nam.html>.

 
WHAT'S NAM?
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Nam is a Tcl/TK based animation tool for viewing network simulation traces
and real world packet traces. It supports topology layout, packet level
animation, and various data inspection tools.

Nam began at LBNL. It has evolved substantially over the past few years.
The nam development effort is now an ongoing collaboration with the VINT
project.
 
 
WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0a2?
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This version is the first public alpha release of nam-1.0.

Nam includes:
 
- - various data inspection tools, including monitors for packets and 
    protocol agents, inspection of parameters of nodes and links, charting
    link utilization and packet losses.

- - supports multiple views of the same topology, as well as zoom and
    panning of any view.

- - automatic topology layout

- - an accurate (although not necessarily complete :-) man page

Nam-1.0a2 is available from
<http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/nam.html>
and requires TclCL-1.0b4 (also available there),
Tcl-7.6 and otcl-0.96.