Re: (GUI) Graphic user interface

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:06:17 +0200, Carmen Oria Ratia wrote: 
>Dear sir,
>We are researchers of the department of Electronics of Malaga University 
>(Spain).
>We are now evaluating some network simulators in order to choose one for using 
>in our department. We are concerned with ATM, CDMA and Internet issues.
>We have seen your simulator and we have found it very complete and powerful, but 
>we have some questions. 
>The main point is to know if it exists a GUI to avoid using the ns specification 
>language.

No.  The nam visualization tool shows the results of a simulation,
but you must write the sim in otcl.

(However, there are lots of examples, and simple sims are fairly
simple in otcl, and complex sims become possible because of
scripting.)

>Another question is if the simulator has been tested for ATM networks, 
>specifically routing.
>And how to model different protocols inside a node.

Ns does not included explicit support for ATM,
although consult the archive, a user recently mentioned some support
for SAR.

Consult the ns documentation for modeling different protocols.

   -John Heidemann