Re: Define new pkt type

[Gang Wu <wu15@ecn.purdue.edu>]

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Shuqian Yan wrote:

> 
> Hello, all
> 
> What is the right way to define new pkt type in ns2? I add some new 
> type of control message in mcast_ctrl.cc, so I modify that file, adding 
> in new pkt name, etc. then I modify the packt.h file to define the pkt 
> type. It doesn't work, the nam animator was showing wrong names for the 
> particular control pkt generated, same error also appear in the out.tr 
> file.
> 
> Tks in advance,
> 
> shuqian 
> 

Hi, Shuqian,

I once made my own packet type.  I adopted it from the CBR traffic.  The
files I have modified were:

ns-default.tcl
trace.cc
packet.h.

In packet.h, you can name your type, like "my_packet"; in ns-default.tcl,
you can define some properties like maxpacketsize, etc.; and you also need
to go into trace.cc to add something and let NS keep track of your packet
sequence #s.

Hope this help, take care!


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