[Ns-developers] ns-3 nam support

[Mathieu Lacage]

hi,

There were lots of question about nam support for ns-3 at the sigcomm
demo: tom managed to convince me to take a shot at this and see what we
could do. See http://code.nsnam.org/mathieu/ns-3-nam

src/contrib/nam-helper.h is the API and it seems to work reasonably well
for point to point links.

I still have some issues with the layout of broadcast links in nam so, I
would welcome input from nam experts. 

Here is what I generate:

V -t * -v 1.13 -a 0
n -t * -a 0 -s 0 -S UP -v circle
n -t * -a 1 -s 1 -S UP -v circle
n -t * -a 2 -s 2 -S UP -v circle
n -t * -a 3 -s 3 -S UP -v circle
X -t * -n 4 -r 5000000 -D 0.002
L -t * -s 4 -d 0
L -t * -s 4 -d 1
L -t * -s 4 -d 2
L -t * -s 4 -d 3

and here is the output I get:
http://faculty.washington.edu/lacage/csma-one-subnet.png

which, honestly, looks pretty bad. Someone would know how to coerce nam
into generating something nicer looking ?

Mathieu