[Ns-bugs] [Bug 277] star topologies are painful to create

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http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277





------- Comment #7 from craigdo at ee.washington.edu  2008-08-10 14:33 -------
I saw the python construct,

  csma.InstallStar(...)

What does that even mean?  A typo?

It seems odd (and relatively inflexible) to me to start putting methods for
creating high-level topologies in helpers.  It seems more natural to me to have
a Star helper that takes a number of nodes and wires them together using
point-to-point helpers.

On another note:

Is someone going to file a bug that says, "ring topologies are painful to
create"?  Will we respond by adding an InstallRing method to the point-to-point
device helper?

Is someone going to file a bug that says, "mesh topologies are painful to
create"?  Will we respond by adding an InstallMesh method to the point-to-point
device helper?

Is someone going to file a bug that says, "tree topologies are painful to
create"?  Will we respond by adding an InstallTree method to the csma device
helper that installs stars on csma nodes?

Hmmm.


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