Re: RFCs advertising simulator tools?

[Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>]

> In the weird-but-intriguing and what-are-RFCs-for depts...

They could have just announced
http://bacon.gmu.edu/qosip/
instead. Opnet code, descriptions, diagrams etc available from there.

hmmph.

L.

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>

> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
> 
>         RFC 2490:
> 
>         Title:	    A Simulation Model for IP Multicast with RSVP
> 	Author(s):  M. Pullen, R. Malghan, L. Lavu, G. Duan, J. Ma,
> 		    H. Nah
> 	Status:     Informational
> 	Date:       January 1999
>         Mailbox:    mpullen@gmu.edu, rmalghan@bacon.gmu.edu, 
> 		    llavu@bacon.gmu.edu, gduan@us.oracle.com,
> 		    jma@newbridge.com, hnah@bacon.gmu.edu
> 	Pages:      31
>         Characters: 74936
>         Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None    
>         I-D Tag:    draft-pullen-ipv4-rsvp-04.txt
> 
> 
>         URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2490.txt
> 
> 
> This document describes a detailed model of IPv4 multicast with RSVP
> that has been developed using the OPNET simulation package [4], with
> protocol procedures defined in the C language.  The model was
> developed to allow investigation of performance constraints on routing
> but should have wide applicability in the Internet multicast/resource
> reservation community.  We are making this model publicly available
> with the intention that it can be used to provide expanded studies of
> resource-reserved multicasting.
> 
> [boilerplate. L.]
> 
>