Re: C on ns

[Kannan Varadhan <kannan@ISI.EDU>]

Personally (and this is a big disclaimer, stating that
I am about to make a fool of myself here :-),

Personally, I think it will be a bad strategy to try to
put the existing RSVP code "into" ns.  You might want to
extract out the portions of RSVP that you'd like to play
with and try just putting those into ns.  Alternately,
take a look at the Tap agent in ns (no documentation on
that one yet, sorry).

This last one allows you to make ns play nice with "real"
code on separate machines to a limited extent.  Thus you
would put your RSVP code on a few machines, and have them
talk to the simulator; this simulator would shuffle those
RSVP packets through any complex networks that you can
conjure up, and study RSVP in that context.  This idea has
been (is being) used for studying wb by Steve and TCP by
Kevin who might chime in with more suggestions if you decide
to follow this route,


Kannan