Is it the case of using broadcast traffic outside the routing operation? Because routing protocols handle broadcast traffic for routing purposes themselves.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Damian Philipp <damian.phil...@gmx.net>wrote: > Hello, > > Dimitris Liarokapis schrieb: > > Is it only broadcast traffic that you use? > > No, I will use mixed Broadcast and Unicast traffic. > > Regards, > Damian Philipp > > > On 6/24/09, Damian Philipp <damian.phil...@gmx.net> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
