Re: [ns] Bugs in NS and other questions...

[Tarik Alj <aljtarik@cholla.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca>]

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>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:25:07 -0700
>From: Will Shaver <will@digitalfountain.com>
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>Subject: [ns] Bugs in NS and other questions...
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>I'm doing a summer internship for for this company called Digital
>Fountain. Part of this is running some simulations in NS. I've run into
>a couple of things, and was hopeing that someone out there could shed
>some light on them.
> I believe that I have looked over the docs correctly. Tas the following
>are either bugs in NS or simply things that don't seem to work for me.
>Of course all of these bugs come under "NOTE: This section has not been
>verified" sections in the manual, but if anyone could shed some light on
>them that would be very helpful.
>   First off, the manual talks about setting default values, the example
>is:
>
>Agent/TCP set window_ 30

most default values are in tcl/lib/ns-default.tcl
>
>However, if I try and use this with a Traffic/Pareto object such as:
>
>Traffic/Pareto set rate 36000

deprecated syntax, please use : Application/Traffic/Pareto; then correct values 
should be used.

>
>It totally ignores the default values created and doesn't set them for
>an object of that type. (It will set them on an object directly however,
>and the Agent/TCP set window_ does seem to be working correctly)
>
>Even more frustrating is the seeming lack of ability to connect the
>Traffic object to an agent. Given in the docs to be:
>
>$agent attach-traffic traffic-object
>
>But totally not working when I do this:
>
>set noiseServer [new Agent/TCP/Newreno]
>$noiseServer attach-traffic [new Traffic/Pareto]
>
>It says this:
>
>    (_o45 cmd line 1)
>    invoked from within
>"_o45 cmd attach-traffic _o47"
>    invoked from within
>"catch "$self cmd $args" ret"
>    (procedure "_o45" line 2)
>    (SplitObject unknown line 2)
>    invoked from within
>"$noiseServer attach-traffic [new Traffic/Pareto]"
>    (file "nsinput.tcl" line 116)
>    while executing
>"exec /home/wshaver/ns-2.1b5/ns nsinput.tcl > out.txt"
>    (file "runexp" line 4)
>
>Any help would be great, and if anything is unclear, just ask.
> -Will
>

Tarik