Re: [ns] Proposed modification to NSE to use two NIC card properly

[shailesh sheoran <shailesh@ece.ubc.ca>]

hi,
	as u might have received my mail "Real time clock falling behind".
I have done exactly what u are trying and it works. but the catch is, its
only on FreeBSD.

Shailesh Sheoran
M.ASc.
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of British Columbia

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Swigert Scott S Contr AFRL/HEA wrote:

> To all NSE user
>
> We are conducting a study that requires the use of 2 NIC card on two
> different IP addresses.   We want to use NSE to capture both UDP broadcast
> and multicast network traffic from one NIC card passing it through a
> simulated NS network (WAN or LAN) then sending the packet out the second NIC
> card.  The topology ideas for the NS simulation are endless but their would
> be one NIC card for input from a live network and one NIC card for output to
> a live network.
>
> Reading the NSE documentation I was led to believe that NSE had this
> capability.  After a lot of work and E-mails to the NS user group it appears
> this function was never tested or verified to work properly.  Well it
> appears the user group is correct using two NIC card and NSE dose not work
> correctly.
>
> My question to the group is what would it take to get NSE to properly use
> two NIC cards in the scenario I have mentioned above.  I believe this could
> be a very useful feature of NSE for other user as well.  To those that
> modify the code of NS and NSE could you please post a response on wither
> this is a good feature and if so how long and what would it take to
> implement this in NSE.
>
> Thank You,
> Scott Swigert
> L3 Communication Link Simulation & Training
> Mesa, Az
>
>