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Re: [ns] ACK not coming on ErrorModel



Thanks Lloyd,

I suspected this and set the unit to byte, but still it did not work as
expected. I might be missing out something here...

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:07:13 +0100 (BST)
Lloyd Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

> ErrorModel defaults to an error rate *per packet*. rather than across
> a whole bitstream as an engineer might expect. As a result, the
> shorter ACKs will be experiencing a much much much higher actual error
> rate than the forward packets unless you step in to alter this.
> 
> set em [new ErrorModel]
> 
> # You have the choice of
> $em unit pkt ;# default
> # or
> $em unit byte
> # or
> $em unit time
> 
> Either of the other two options is more useful and meaningful than the
> default pkt; it would be nice if the docs pointed this out.
> 
> L.
> 
> <[email protected]>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
> 
> 


Arnold P, Siboro ([email protected])