[ns] ns under Windows was Re: ns simulator

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

Giovanni,

your experiences with ns under Windows echo those recently recounted
on the ns-users mailing list (see the list archive).

Although I have (sensibly) never attempted to run ns under Windows, I
personally think you'd be insane to contemplate using a pre-built
Windows version of ns for anything other than teaching - research
is very likely to require modification to parts of ns (in your case,
the C++ satellite code).

None of the ns developers uses Windows heavily, and it
shows... install linux or FreeBSD on a PC, then install a current
version of ns, and go from there.

L.

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/binary/
so the last time anyone built an ns snapshot under Windows was almost
a year ago, eh?

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Giovanni Giambene wrote:

> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:22:02 +0200
> From: Giovanni Giambene <giambene@marconi.ltt.dii.unisi.it>
> To: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
> Subject: ns simulator
> 
> 
> Dear Dr. Lloyd Wood,
> 
> I am a research associate with the University of Siena and I am working on 
> medium access control protocols for next generation terrestrial and 
> satellite mobile systems. We are evaluating the possibility of using ns 
> simulator that is particularly suitable for TCP and IP simulations. 
> However, we have encountered some problems in using the pre-built version 
> on Windows 98 (# ns-2_1b7-snapshot-20000616-win32). Therefore, I would be 
> very happy to have your advice on this subject.
> 
> In particular, the ns pre-built version does not (apparently) allow to run 
> the wireless scripts in the Marc Greis's tutorial (isn't is ?); the 
> following  error message occurs in the "simple_wireless.tcl" script: 
> invalid packet type ((null)).
> 
> Another typical problem in running "wireless2.tcl" is related to the 
> following error message: "uneven number of args....invoked from 
> within...."addr2id init 1.0.0"....invoked from within"AddrParams addr2id 
> [$BS(0) node-addr]".
> 
> Moreover, in "wireless3.tcl" the simulation runs, but it stops too early 
> and displays an "unexpected scenario".
> 
> Hence, I would be very obliged to you if you could let me know the limits 
> of the ns pre-built version for Windows:
> - Is it good for running all the included tutorial examples ?
> - Does the pre-built version fully support the library functionalities ?
> 
> I apologize for boring you with these requests. Many thanks in advance for 
> your kind help.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Giovanni Giambene
> 
> 
> 
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