Re: nam: a bug report, and a question

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

nam currently doesn't support mac-layer trace events. We are now working
on it. It'll be out soon.

- Haobo

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat wrote:

> >> A bug report, and then a question:
> >>
> >> (a) To nam-trace a lan: In tcl/lan/ns-lan,
> >> drpT_ attach-nam $namtrfd
> >> should be replaced by
> >> drpT_ namattach $namtrfd
> >>
> >> This bug persists from the previous release.
> 
> >Thanks. It's fixed and a patch is available from the ns problems page.
> 
> Have you guys tried to run tcl/ex/mac-test.tcl?
> Yes. If you fix that, it can generate the nam trace file. But if you run
> nam on that file, it'll show a blank window.
> 
> The following is the content of that nam trace file I got.
> 
> V -t * -v 1.0b6 -a 0
> A -t * -n 1 -p 0 -o 255 -c 15 -a 1
> A -t * -h 1 -m 127 -s 8
> n -t * -a 0 -s 0 -S UP -v circle -c black
> n -t * -a 1 -s 1 -S UP -v circle -c black
> n -t * -a 2 -s 2 -S UP -v circle -c black
> n -t * -a 3 -s 3 -S UP -v circle -c black
> + -t 0.001 -s 0 -d 1 -p tcp -e 1000 -c 0 -i 0 -a 0 -x {0.0 1.0 0 -------
> (null)}
> + -t 0.002 -s 0 -d 2 -p tcp -e 1000 -c 0 -i 1 -a 0 -x {0.1 2.0 0 -------
> (null)}
> + -t 0.003 -s 0 -d 3 -p tcp -e 1000 -c 0 -i 2 -a 0 -x {0.2 3.0 0 -------
> (null)}
> + -t 0.006148 -s 1 -d 0 -p ack -e 40 -c 0 -i 3 -a 0 -x {1.0 0.0 0
> ------- (null)}
> ..........
> 
> It seems that it doesn't provide the link information.
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Chalermek Intanagonwiwat
> 
>