Re: [ns] MAC_BROADCAST

[Sridhar Gurivireddy <Sridhar.Gurivireddy@usa.alcatel.com>]

Just try setting the mac destination address to
MAC_BROADCAST

hdr_mac->macDA_ = MAC_BROADCAST

This should take care of mac broadcast.

Hope this helps,
Sridhar Gurivireddy


Sagnik Bhattacharya wrote:

> I am trying to get my agent at a node to send a packet to all nodes in its
> broadcast radius. My agent runs on top of DSDV routing and 802.11 MAC. I
> did
>
> hdr_ip * iph = HDR_IP(pkt);
> hdr_cmn *cmh = HDR_CMN(pkt);
>
> cmh->next_hop() = MAC_BROADCAST;
> cmh->addr_type() = NS_AF_ILINK;
>
> iph->src_ = here_;
> iph->dst_.addr_ = MAC_BROADCAST;
> iph->dst_.port_ = here_.port_;
>
> But the agents at nodes in its radius are not receiving the packet. I saw
> a similar query in the list, but there wasn't any reply. Can anyone help?
>
> Sagnik

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