Re: Multicast and RLM problem

[Hugh Smith <smithh@cse.msu.edu>]

Haobo;

Arnaud Legout pointed out that my PruneTimeOut was set to 100.  This is
what was causing the problem.  Since my simulation is pretty simple I
changed it to a larger value and the problem went away.

Thanks, Hugh


Haobo Yu wrote:
> 
> Which multicast routing are you using? This should not happen with
> centralized multicast.
> 
> - Haobo
> 
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Hugh Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am testing out RLM with multiple sources and am having trouble with
> > packets being routed to receivers who have not joined the multicast
> > group.  This "routing" happens about 100 seconds into my simulation and
> > repeats about every 100 seconds.  I'm guessing it has to do with ns's
> > handling of multicast routing but I cannot find anything in the
> > documentation.
> >
.
.
.
> >
> >     #mcast set up
> >     DM set PruneTimeout 100
> >     set mproto DM
> >     set mrthandle [$ns mrtproto $mproto {} ]
> > }
> >
> >