Re: Attaching multiple agent to a node

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

> Are there some sort of multiplexing between the two agent?
> Suppose I'd like to have a mixing of CBR and PARETO in one node
> to achieve different form of traffic, is that gonna work in this
> way?

There is no multiplexing unless you wrote your agent to do that. A packet
is sent to its destination, which is a single agent, or a group of agents. 

> Another example which I'm more interested in, suppose I've attached
> an FTP agent to a node which etablished a TCP connection with other
> node. Now if I'd like to send some sort of control packet in every time
> interval (let's say every 30 seconds), is there any way for me to do
> that? 

FTP is not an agent, it's a traffic source. If you want to send control
packets, you can extend UDP/TCP agents to support that, or put them in the
data area in packets, and process them in the Application level. 

- Haobo