Is it only broadcast traffic that you use?
On 6/24/09, Damian Philipp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I am working on a simulation for a newly developed protocol in wireless > ad-hoc networks. After quite some digging and experimenting I managed to > find out how to send a Broadcast package > (http://nuraini.net/2007/09/16/unicast-and-broadcat-packet-on-ns2/ is > probably the best source). Now that I am able to send broadcast > packages, I'd also like to be able to receive them. > > I found a message sent to this list almost a decade ago: > http://isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/2000/msg02832.html > > This explains on how one would have to go about patching ns2 so a > broadcast packet can be received by something other than the routing > agent. As this post is 9 years old, this got me wondering: are there > some specific issues related to broadcast handling, that this has not > yet been included in the mainline ns2? Or is there actually a better way > to achieve this? > > I also read about a lot of people having problems finding the LL object > in the C++-Code. I too ran into this issue but found that using the > "target_" of the agent works just as well. Is using "target_" a valid > way of broadcasting or is this going to come back and haunt me when I do > more advanced stuff in my Agent? > > Regards, > Damian Philipp > > > > >
