Re: nam release

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

> Sample nam traces like ./ex/ts20.nam have events like:
> l -t * -s 1 -d 14 -S UP -r 1000000 -D 0.12 -o  
> + -t 5.15352 -s 16 -d 18 -p SRM -e 40 -c 7 -i 0 -a 7  
> 
> I checked nam man page but seems "-r" and "-D" aren't defined. Also "-a"
> is defined as queue position, why does it appear in packet events rather
> than in queue events? A third question is : can agent events assign
> colors to agents?

"l ... -r <bw> -D <delay> ..." is used during nam startup to create a
duplex nam link, where -r <bw> describes bandwidth, -D <delay> describes
delay of the link. 

-a is not only used in 'q' event, but also used in all packet-related
events, where it means the 'attribute' of the packet, which is actually
the color id of the packet.

Sorry the above are not documented in the nam man page, they'll be added.

Currently agents cannot change color yet. We are thinking of a way of
user scriptable animation. Hopefully it will solve this problem.

Thanks for your report.

- Haobo