Re: [ns] another implementation question for ad hocs

[Vikram Kanodia <kanodia@ece.rice.edu>]

 These functions are used to format the output to the trace file according
to the protocol used.....

-Vikram

> Hi everybody,
> 
> Thanks to Padma's help, I managed to enable selction of my ad hoc
> routing protocol from the node-config command in ns. Now I have a new
> problem...
> 
> I have noticed that in the file cmu-trace.cc, there is a switch
> statement (in CMUTrace::format() ) that detects the packet types and
> then calls another function accordingly.
> 
> E.g. case PT_AODV:
> 		format_aodv(p, offset);
> 		break;
> 
> What is the format_aodv/tora/dsr() function used for? I've had a look at
> the code for this function and am not sure of it's significance. Do I
> need to include a format_myagent() function for my protocol?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Piyush
> (ns-2.1b7, red hat 7)
> 
> 

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