Re: thread support

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 13:21:44 -0300, Marinho Barcellos wrote: 
>I'd like to know if there is any support for multi-threaded
>protocols in ns. If so, any pointers please?
>
>Otherwise, would major modifications be required to
>ns?

Protocols (packets on the wire) aren't really threaded, their
implementations are.

Ns is single threaded and event driven, so implementing protocols
using threads in ns would be Hard.

(In most cases, event driven implementations are easier to debug [IMHO].)

   -John Heidemann