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Re: question about agent type



>From the base class agent write an instproc is-nbd? that always return 0; from 
your nbd agent class write an intsproc is-nbd? that always return 1. It should 
do the trick...

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to develop an agent for ad-hoc network which runs a 
> neighbor discovery protocol, and just that.
> As the aodv routing protocol does neighbor discovery, my code-writing 
> strategy has been to steal as much as I could into the aodv code.
> But, I want my new agent, call it nbd, to be a normal agent, not a 
> routing one like aodv. However, I would like nbd to send its packets  
> (hello messages in fact) direclty to the ll layer.
> To do so, I think I should add to the add-target-New procedure in ns/tcl
> /lib/ns-node.tcl the following:
> 
> 	#
> 	# Send Target
> 	#
> 
> If the agent is a nbd
> 	$agent target [$self set ll_(0)]
> else
> 	$agent target [$self entry]
> 	
> 	#
> 	# Recv Target
> 	#
> 	...
> 
> How could I code the "agent is a nbd" part?
> How could I get the type of an agent when the only thing I know about it
>  is "$agent"?
> 
> any suggestions about how I could do what I want to do?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Robin POSS

Tarik