Re: question about putting packets on the wire

["Dwalu Z. Khasu" <dwalu@dwalu.Eng.Sun.COM>]

Thanx for the quick response...there is one issue in the
documentation that I'd like to resolve.  The docs mention two emulation
modes: opaque and protocol.  The documentation also states that only
opaque had been implemented as of Mar 1998?!?  Is this still true?  What's
the status of the 'protocol' mode?  Thanx much

				- Dwalu
.peace
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, John Heidemann wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:14:10 PST, Sumit Gupta wrote: 
> >What would it take to modify NS-2 to actually make it send
> >packets *over* the wire, i.e., simulating node
> >objects on different machines and having them
> >send packets to each other over an actual
> >network.
> >
> >Would this require a radical change in the NS architecture
> >or would it be trivial to extend NS to accomplish this?
> >
> >any input would be helpful.
> >
> >thanks
> >sumit 
> >
> >gupta.sumit@eng.sun.com
> >
> 
> Hmmmm...ns already does that!  See the emulation section of "ns
> notes and doc".
> 
> Current applications are mostly going into or across ns, though.
> Binding two simulators together would require a little more work.
> 
>    -John Heidemann
>