Re: [ns] Problem with multicast and DV and question about multicastprotocols

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

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Aaron D Striegel wrote:

> Lloyd,
> 
> I can vouch for the fact that DV fails in ns-2.1b8.  It produces the same 
> error that Manuel mentions.

Aargh.

L.

> Aaron
> 
> At 05:58 PM 10/24/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Manuel P�rez de Castro wrote:
> >
> > > The problem:
> > > I am trying to simulate multicast scenarios, with networks dynamics (links
> > > going up and down). I use DV protocol ($ns rtproto DV) to recompute route
> > > information when a link goes down. But when I simulate I get some errors,
> > > all with something referring to a "Node_(-1)". If I remove the line "$ns
> > > rtproto DV" I do not get the error. Are DV and multicast incompatible or am
> > > I doing something wrong?
> >
> >DV has problems in some releases of ns. Can you reproduce this on ns
> >2.1b8?

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