Re: [ns] Lan

[Tarik Alj <aljtarik@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca>]

> There is no support for switched LAN in ns directly. 

well, what's a switch, what's a router...

> 
> -alefiya
> 
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Thomas Kuborn wrote:
> 
> > Ok thx all for your help, I eventually solved my problem...It appears nam
> > wont run if you dont give it some information I thought was unnecessary ...
> > Like you cant just make-lan, you need to create some agents (udp for me).

no joke...  

> > 
> > Well now the lan is working I was wondering if there was a way to tell ns to
> > use switched lan and not shared lan ??

picture this :

set switch [$ns node]
set n1 [$ns node]
...
set nk [$ns node]

$ns make-lan "$switch $n1" ...
...
$ns make-lan "$switch $nk" ...
 
Now you have a switched LAN (with a L2-3 switch...) 


You can also use my package if you want to, but you might (make that
"will") need to rewrite some of the code (it's all Tcl).


> > 
> > Anyone can point me to some useful resource ?
> > 
> > Thanx for your time
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
>