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Re: NS Multicast address problem




Daniel Hernandez <[email protected]> writes:

> Dear All,
> 
> I've been doing multicast research using NS version 2.1b5 on Linux (RedHat
> 5.2), and I am curious about the way that NS handles addresses, specifically
> in the dst_ member variable of the "Agent" class.  It appears that sending
> to multicast addresses with the most significant bit set doesn't work.  At
> the end of this message, I have included an example TCL file with a simple,
> two-node network.  There are two possible settings for the "group" variable,
> one works (0x60008000) and the other does not (0xE0008000).  For the address

How many bits do you think NS uses for addressing?  Chapter 4 in nsdoc
talks about it.