Re: [ns] Tutorial and Manual Problems

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

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, William Tjokroaminata wrote:

> I just installed ns 2.1b6 on Solaris.  I followed Marc Greis's tutorial 
> (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/index.html).  Everything worked fine 
> until Section VI (Network Dynamics).  Before I added the line
> 
>     ns rtproto DV
> 
> the behavior is exactly as described in the tutorial.  However, after I 
> added the line, I did not see many packets anymore; there was nothing like 
> the "smart" alternate-path described in the tutorial. 

This is a known FAQ.

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html#ns-2.1b6

Problem:When I use DV routing I don't get any traffic. 

      Solution:This is fixed in the snapshot of 14 February 2000.
      You could also apply the patches
in: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/2000/msg00635.html. 

> Also, I am having problem finding the latest manual.  The web page 
> (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-documentation.html) contains a link called 
> "gzip'ed PostScript format" but when I downloaded it, it is only the cover 
> page! 

This has been reported to the list several times in the past
week. Sigh.

L.

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