Hello, Dimitris Liarokapis schrieb: > Is it the case of using broadcast traffic outside the routing operation? > Because routing protocols handle broadcast traffic for routing purposes > themselves.
yes, I am using broadcast traffic outside of the routing protocol. > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Damian Philipp <[email protected]>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 <[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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >>
