Re: Bad Nam trace format

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

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Lloyd Wood wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Claudia Jacy Barenco wrote:
> 
> >        When running Nam I received the following error:
> > "Nam:badly formatted event at offset 1061 in out.nam"
> >        The line in out.nam is:
> > "+ 0.288906 0 1 pareto 210 ------- 0 4.0 5.0 0 0"
> > What is wrong with this format ?
> 
> at a guess, the name pareto, which nam doesn't recognise. 

...since that's obviously .tr format, and this shouldn't be cropping
up in a .nam tracefile anyway. Looks like you've got your trace-all
and namtrace-all filenames mixed up at some point; the odd thing is
that nam would normally complain about these things far earlier than
line 1061...

bad guess - arghle. (thanks, Miroslav.)

L.


> (couldn't
> find 'pareto' anywhere in a recent build of nam except random.h and
> rng.h, which are pretty much copies of the same files in ns, and
> unused by nam itself.)
> 
> Should an application generating a pareto-like distribution be
> connected to a traffic agent (UDP/TCP) which nam will recognise?
> Better approach than the pareto-agent you seem to have there. (You
> could always lie in your ns code and call it cbr, I suppose.)
> 
> L.

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