Q: is more than 127 agents at one node possible?

["Igor V. Alekseev" <aiv@yars.free.net>]

Hi, 

I am a new NS user and I ran into the following problem:

I need to simulate large number of concurrent TCP connections. I tried creating 
the topology like this:

1000 nodes ---- Router link Router ---- 1000 nodes, each node has one TCP 
connection to one peer

In this case the machine I am using tends to dump core, without any complaints, 
with the core size equal to all the available memory.

I tried changing the topology like this:

1000 nodes ---- Router link Router ---- node #1001, each node has a TCP 
connection to node 1001,  but I cannot make more than 127 agents to get attached 
to one node.

Is there a way out of this? Perhaps some command to expand the port address 
space, equivalent to "Node expandaddr" ?

TIA, 

Igor V. Alekseev
Yaroslavl State University Internet Centre