Re: [ns] Hierarchical addressing and mcast

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

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, B. Scott Michel wrote:

> Fundamentally, in all well-designed and maintained software, there are a set
> of "critical" features that work together. While you and I may disagree what
> those features are as a total set, I'd have to say that hierarchical
> addressing is one of them and it is fairly fundamental to the operation of
> network routing protocols as we know them today.

...and (a favourite bete noir) flat addressing is really hierarchical
addressing with just one level of hierarchy, so it should be possible
to adapt the hierarchical addressing code to serve the needs of the
default flat address space.

and
$ns set-address-format hierarchical 1 22

is then effectively your default.

(Now that expanded addressing is the default, sections 
14.1 to 14.3 of the current manual are well out of date.)

L.

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