Re: [ns] wired ad-hoc networking

[Xuan Chen <xuanc@ISI.EDU>]

I don't think the ad hoc routing protocols are supported in a wired
network in ns. Thanks.

-chen xuan

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Oluseye O. Ojumu wrote:

> hi all;
> 
> i want to create a scenario of nodes on wired links that uses a
> ad-hoc routing protocols ( for the sake of example, aodv ).
> 
> is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> i tried changing the routing strategy by:
> 
> $ns rtproto LS/DV ( i.e. i tried both )
> 
> i do not think that either the DV or linkstate options work
> for me; they seem to send their packets every so often and not
> when a packet needs a path, that is, they aren't ad hoc.
> 
> in a tangentially related question; does anyone know why the
> linkstate routing calls it's route-changed method so often, even
> when the route has not changed? this is even after the initial
> path discovery at the beginning.
> 
> in particular, in <ns-install-dir>/ns-2.1b7a/tcl/rtglib/ns-rtProtoLS.tcl
> the method with this signature:
>     Agent/rtProto/LS instproc route-changed {}
> gets called an obscene amount.
> 
> could anyone shed some light on either of these things?
> 
> thank you.
> 
> seye
> 

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Xuan Chen
USC/ISI