[Ns-developers] Proposed addition of PackMime and DelayBox

[Michele Weigle]

Hi folks,

   I'm working on importing new modules PackMime (http:// 
dirt.cs.unc.edu/packmime) and DelayBox (http://dirt.cs.unc.edu/ 
delaybox) in the ns-2 CVS tree.  I just wanted to give you a heads-up  
on what effect it would have on other code and get comments/ 
objections before I start.  Along with changes just to get things to  
compile (Makefile.in and ns-lib.tcl),  there are a couple of other  
files that I would need to change:

  * common/packet.h -- add the packet type PT_BLTRACE for the open- 
loop version of PackMime
  * tcp/tcp-full.cc -- add closed_ = 0; close_on_empty_ = FALSE; to  
FullTcpAgent::reset() to facilitate the re-use of TCP agents
  * tcp/tcp-full.h -- move reset() from protected to public so that  
PackMime can reset TCP agents
  * tools/rng.h -- add declarations for several random variables that  
will be defined in packmime/packmime_HTTP_rng.cc.  These are along  
the lines of lognormal(), pareto(), etc. that are already in rng.h.   
We may want to move the definitions to rng.cc (like the others) at  
some point in the future.

   Again, let me know of there are any issues with these changes.

Thanks,
Michele

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Michele Weigle
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