Re: [ns] Agent classes

[<mel30@cam.ac.uk>]

Sorry,for the confusion,by handling ACKs I meant the function
that actually generates the ACKs.Looking at recv() function in
tcp.cc,it looks like it receives ACKs and sents out packets.
Therefore I would like to know which one generates them.

Thanks 

Mpiti

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Lewie Donckers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Thanks for the prompt responce.By the way what's the name of the
> > fuction in tcp-sink.cc that actually handles acks.
> 
> What you have been told is not exactly true. tcp-sink.cc (and the recv()
> function) does not handle acknowledgements but it handles normal data
> packets. It (indirectly) _creates_ acknowledgements in response to data
> packets. The recv() function in tcp.cc handles acknowledgements (and sends
> more data packets in response).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -- Lewie Donckers
> --
> -- Computer Science student at the University of Twente, the Netherlands
> -- donckers@cs.utwente.nl
> 
>