Re: Hardware Broadcast

[Padmaparna Haldar <haldar@ISI.EDU>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Manor Shiri wrote:

> Hi, 
> I am ns 1.4 user, it does not support Hardware Broadcast.
> So I consider moving to ns 2.
> Does ns-2 support Hardware Broadcast.

Shiri,

You can set the channel to broadcast mode for a given pkt (by
setting it mac destination address correctly). For details please
refer to the ns-2 documentation at 

http://www-mash.CS.Berkeley.EDU/ns/ns-documentation.html

--Padma.


> 
> What I need is that for example few nodes will
> be connected, and the agent on each node will
> be able to send message using hardware broadcast.
> I mean that all nods that connected on the Lan will receive
> the hardware broadcast message together with no delay.
> If two nodes send hardware broadcast together there will be colllision.
>  
> 
> Thanks Shiri
> 
> 

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Padmaparna Haldar
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