Re: Validation Test Data Incorrect!

[Lloyd Wood <eep1lw@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Julio Cesar Navas wrote:

> I was checking the validation test output in
> ns-2.1b6-current/tcl/test/test-output-greis/example3
> and I noticed that it is incorrect.   Specifically, it only
> contains rtProtoDV packets and NO CBR PACKETS at all.
> 
> This is caused by rtProtoDV not working correctly in the snapshot of Dec
> 12 1999.

You're not the first to notice that DV routing is, alas, currently
broken.

See discussion at:
http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/archive/ns-users/9912/0039.html

and the rest of that thread.

L.

hopefully this will be fixed well before 2.1b6 is released...

> Specifically, the initial routing tables are not being set-up properly
> and the DV routing packets are simply being dropped.  Instead of
> delivering a packet to the link interface, a node will deliver it
> directly to the destination node.
> 
> I ran the greis example3 script using NS v2.1b4 and it ran correctly
> according to the Greis tutorial.
> 
> I can't figure out what is wrong.  Hopefully, one of you can give me a
> clue.
> 
> Julio

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