Re: [ns] ns simulator

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Pang Kin Hoong wrote:

>     Anyone can help ? I am learning the tutorial on the given web 
> http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/nsscrip3.html on Network Dynamics.
> I have a problem on the dynamic routing  :
> 
>     After i add the command $ns rtproto DV ,I suppost to have output of 
> routed through the node 6,5 and 4 when the link goes down(breakdown) between 
> the node 1 and 2.
> 
> Output/nam output
> 1: The breakdown link between node 1 and 2 in 1s to 2s.
> 2: The data transferring between the nodes are loss after adding the above 
> line/command.

You are using ns 2.1b6, and DV routing is broken in ns 2.1b6. 
It was fixed in a later snapshot.

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html
says:

Problem:When I use DV routing I don't get any traffic. 

      Solution:This is fixed in the snapshot of 14 February 2000.
      You could also apply the patches
in: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/2000/msg00635.html. 

L.

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