[Ns-announce] [Fwd: [Ns-developers] New ns-3 Stable Release Posted (ns-3.2)]

[Tom Henderson]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ns-developers] New ns-3 Stable Release Posted (ns-3.2)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:51:56 -0700
From: <craigdo at ee.washington.edu>
Reply-To: craigdo at u.washington.edu
Organization: The University of Washington
To: 'ns-developers' <ns-developers at ISI.EDU>

Hi all,

I am happy to announce that the latest stable release of ns-3 (ns-3.2) is
immediately available at the below location:

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.2.tar.bz2

Please see this "getting started" page if you are new to ns-3:
http://www.nsnam.org/getting_started.html

Selected items from the RELEASE_NOTES file in the distribution ...

Supported platforms
-------------------

ns-3 is regularly tested on the following platforms:
   - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
   - linux x86_64 gcc 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 3.4.6
   - MacOS X ppc and x86
   - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

Known issues
------------

ns-3 is known to fail on the following platforms:
   - gcc 3.3 and earlier
   - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
   - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
   - optimized builds on Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 x86 gcc 4.3.2
   - MinGW

New user-visible features
-------------------------
   a) Learning bridge (IEEE 802.1D)
     It is now possible to bridge together multiple layer 2 devices to
     create larger layer 2 networks. The Wifi and Csma models support
     this new mode of operation. (contributed by Gustavo Carneiro)

   b) Python bindings
     It is now possible to write simulation scripts in python using our
     python bindings (contributed by Gustavo Carneiro).

   c) Real-time simulator
     It is now possible to run simulations synchronized on the real-world
     wall-clock time (contributed by Craig Dowell).

   d) Network Simulation Cradle
     It is now possible to use the Network Simulation Cradle
     (http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/nsc/) in ns-3 and run simulations
     using various versions of kernel TCP network stacks. (contributed
     by Florian Westphal as part of his Google Summer of Code work)

   e) A statistics framework
     Joseph Kopena contributed a statistics framework which can be used
     keep track of simulation data in persistent storage across multiple
     runs (database and ascii file backends are available).
     More information on the wiki:


http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Statistical_Framework_for_Network_Simula
tion

-- Craig