Re: [ns] More addressing questions

[Kun-Chan Lan <kclan@isi.edu>]

> Hi,
>
> As I said previously on this list, I'm interested in being able to assign
> an arbitrary node address to a node. I've managed to do this to some
> extent, but I'm having some problems with nam. I'm not familiar with the
> nam internals, so I'm having difficulty pinpointing the problem, but I did
> notice that if the node address is made sufficiently large that strange
> behaviour ensues.
>
> Initially, I thought that this might be attributed to use of integers to
> represent node addrs rather than unsigned integers. I'm not so sure that
> this is the case now, but in any case, I found that the addr field in the
> ns_addr_t struct is a *signed* int. Is there any reason for this, or can
> I change it to an unsigned int without breaking things? (I think it might
> affect some multicasting stuff, but I'm not sure).
>

nam should be independent of how ns works internally (i.e.  the only thing
matters to nam is the nam
trace file ) . I just browsed trace.cc , and it seems to me currently nam
uses integer to assign node id .

Kun-chan Lan